Anyone wanna help with iText and my java agent?

hcl-bot · January 23, 2008, 5:11pm

Hey all,

Found lots of help on this site to get me started but I really am quite lost. If appropriate, tell me (politely pls) to go learn some more

Here is the scenario…

-Only for use from the notes client.

-Java agent is being called by LS via a form action.

-I pass in the NoteID (agent.run) and get a handle on the backend doc. for processing (was able in early test to use doc context)

-I have successfully added the itext207.jar to my agent

-I can create very nice tables and add content

-I can save the resulting pdf to a notes document

GOALS:

-add a header and footer on each page (table of data to be repeated for both)

-pagenumbers

-eventually will want to get a document collection and write variable number of rows of data to the pdf

CODE:

Here is the basis of the Java agent: removed most of the content to help shorten it.

import lotus.domino.*;

import java.io.*;

import com.lowagie.text.Font;

import com.lowagie.text.*;

import java.util.*;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.math.*;

import java.text.*;

import java.lang.*;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;

import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;

import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;

import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;

import com.lowagie.text.FontFactory;

import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;

import com.lowagie.text.Image;

import com.lowagie.text.html.HtmlWriter;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.codec.TiffImage;

import com.lowagie.text.Element;

import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase {

     Label l;

	PdfPCell cell;

	Paragraph p1;

	String tiff_file;

	String imTiff_file;

	String pdf_file;

	String strInPutXMLData;

	String strOutPutImage;

	String PdfWriteDirBase;

      String PdfWriteDir;

      String path;

      Locale locale = Locale.US;

public void NotesMain() {

try {

	Session session = getSession();

AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

Agent nAgent = agentContext.getCurrentAgent();

Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();

String strNoteID = nAgent.getParameterDocID();

lotus.domino.Document doc = db.getDocumentByID(strNoteID);





  String userInput = doc.getItemValueString( "ORD_PO_NUM" );

  if ( userInput == null ) userInput = "Nothing Entered";



  /* make a filename  */

 String fName = userInput + "_CC.pdf"; 

 String filePath=  "C:\\" + fName ;          

  PrintWriter pw = getAgentOutput();



  /* create the pdf doc */

 com.lowagie.text.Document document = new com.lowagie.text.Document(PageSize.LETTER);



  /* create a writer to listen to the document */

  PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance( document, new FileOutputStream(filePath));

//Set PDF Properties

        	 document.addTitle("XYZ Inc.");

        	 document.addSubject("XYZ Inc.");

        	 document.addCreator("XYZ Inc.");

        	 document.addAuthor("XYZ Inc.");

//START: PDF Document

  document.open();

  document.setMargins(18, 18, 36, 36);



  /* add a page */

  document.newPage(); 	



  // some paragraph of text containing a value from a field on the doc      

  Paragraph myP1 = new Paragraph( "XYZ Inc." , new Font(Font.TIMES_ROMAN,16, Font.BOLD));

  myP1.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);

  document.add(myP1); 



  /* close the document */

  document.close();



  /* create a new document to contain the file */  

  lotus.domino.Document tempDoc=null;

  RichTextItem pdfAttach;

  tempDoc=db.createDocument();           	

  tempDoc.replaceItemValue("Form","TempPDF");           	     

  tempDoc.replaceItemValue("UserInput", userInput + "_CC");        

  pdfAttach = tempDoc.createRichTextItem("PDFAttch");

  pdfAttach.embedObject(EmbeddedObject.EMBED_ATTACHMENT, null, filePath, null);



  /* save the doc */

  tempDoc.save(true, true);

  File fPath = new File(filePath);   

  fPath.delete();

       

} catch(Exception e) {

  e.printStackTrace();

}

}

If you wanna still help here is what I have for examples from the iowagie site to do the rest…

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/directcontent/pageevents/EndPage.java

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/directcontent/pageevents/PageNumbersWatermark.java

I just can’t figure out how to make these work (or incorporate them to the project for that matter). Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Obviously I am a complete newb when it comes to java so please be gentle. Any code examples would be very sweet.