Java Node
The Java Node allows you to define your own node function with all the flexibility provided by Java programming language. This also give access to all the advanced PDF functions available in Qoppa’s jPDFProcess PDF library making it possible to inspect or manipulate the PDFs as part of the process. You can also import your own additional libraries to be used if needed.
PDF Automation Server Custom Job API
Note: Java code is limited ot the version being used by PDF Automation server. PAS comes packaged with Java 1.8.0_202.
How to use the Java Node
Defining your own custom node function will require Java programming. After placing the node, you will need to use the built in code editor to define the function of the node.
The JavaNode interface allows executing Java™ code inside of a Flow in the PDF Automation Server with process(PASContext, Message).
The Message provides access to the current Payload file content and Flow variables. The PASContext provides access to the current running process.
The Code Editor provides sample implementations of the JavaNode interface.
process(PASContext, Message)
This method is called during the Flow execution in the PDF Automation Server. If no modification needs to be done to the Payload content, the return Message array can just contain the same Message passed to this method. Otherwise, if the implementation will modify the Payload content (ie. create new data to be processed in the Flow), a new Message along with a new Payload needs to be returned instead.
In order to create a new Payload, a File is required. If the File should be deleted when the Flow completes processing of the Message, the File should be created using PASContext.createTempFile(String, String).
File output = pasContext.createTempFile("prefix", ".ext");
// TODO - write new data to the output
Payload payload = pasContext.createPayload(output);
Message newMessage = message.deriveMessage(payload);
return new Message[]{ newMessage };
Importing Your Own Jar Files
To add additional jar files for your JavaNode implementation, add all required jar files to the PDF Automation Server installation directory in the "userlib" folder.
Note: The installation directory is local to where the server is running not the PAS Manager.
Java Node Sample
Below is a small example showing how to search a PDF for text and delete that page:
/**
*
* @author Qoppa Software
*
*/
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Vector;
import com.qoppa.pas.api.flow.FlowException;
import com.qoppa.pas.api.flow.JavaNode;
import com.qoppa.pas.api.flow.Message;
import com.qoppa.pas.api.flow.PASContext;
import com.qoppa.pas.api.flow.Payload;
import com.qoppa.pdf.PDFException;
import com.qoppa.pdf.TextPosition;
import com.qoppa.pdfProcess.PDFDocument;
public class SearchPDFDeletePages implements JavaNode {
@Override
public Message[] process(PASContext pasContext, Message message) throws FlowException {
try {
InputStream inStream = message.getPayload().getInputStream();
// Create a PDF Document
PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument(inStream, null);
inStream.close();
int pageIdx = pdfDoc.getPageCount() - 1;
while (pageIdx >= 0) {
// Search the page for specific text
Vector<TextPosition> textPositions = pdfDoc.getPage(pageIdx).findText("search text", false, true);
// If search results were found, delete the page
if (textPositions.size() > 0) {
pdfDoc.deletePage(pageIdx);
}
--pageIdx;
}
// Create a new Payload with the new PDFDocument
File tempFile = pasContext.createTempFile("del_pages", ".pdf");
FileOutputStream outStream = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);
pdfDoc.saveDocument(outStream);
outStream.close();
Payload payload = pasContext.createPayload(tempFile);
// Create a new Message with the Payload
Message returnMessage = message.deriveMessage(payload);
return new Message[] { returnMessage };
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new FlowException(e.getMessage(), e);
} catch (PDFException e) {
throw new FlowException(e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
}
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