Tabs and/or spaces get stripped out at beginning of lines

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I am writing a Notes Agent to do a replace text in the Body for specific incoming email messages.

The problem I’m experiencing is that is seems to be stripping off tabs and/or spaces off the beginning of each line in the Body. So when I keep my message after I make the changes the indents are all gone off the Body.

This is the start of my code and if I do a System.out.println at the end it shows the indents are gone and all rows of text start in the first column.

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase

{

public void NotesMain() 

 {

    try 

    {

        Session session = getSession();

        AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

// (Your code goes here)

        Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();     

        View view = db.getView("IDDE");

        Document doc = view.getFirstDocument();

        Document newdoc = db.createDocument();

        Item subject = doc.replaceItemValue("Subject", "IDDE Invoice - Redone");

        RichTextItem rti = newdoc.createRichTextItem("Body");

        RichTextStyle font = session.createRichTextStyle();

        font.setFont(RichTextStyle.FONT_COURIER);            

        rti.appendStyle(font);

        String token;

        

    Vector items = doc.getItems();

    for (int j=0; j<items.size(); j++) {

      Item item = (Item)items.elementAt(j);

      System.out.println("\t" +

      item.getName() + " = \"" + 

           item.getValueString() + "\"");

      }

Anyone know a way around this problem? I’m thinking it’s because the getValueString method strips off leading spaces and/or tabs.

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Subject: Try getFormattedText method of RichTextItem

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Subject: RE: Try getFormattedText method of RichTextItem

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but sadly the same problem exists. Unless I did the method wrong.

Here’s the changed code.

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase

{

public void NotesMain() 

 {

    try 

    {

        Session session = getSession();

        AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

// (Your code goes here)

        Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();     

        View view = db.getView("IDDE");

        Document doc = view.getFirstDocument();

        Document newdoc = db.createDocument();

        Item subject = doc.replaceItemValue("Subject", "IDDE Invoice - Redone");

        RichTextItem rti = newdoc.createRichTextItem("Body");

        RichTextStyle font = session.createRichTextStyle();

        font.setFont(RichTextStyle.FONT_COURIER);            

        rti.appendStyle(font);

        String token;

              

        RichTextItem body =  (RichTextItem)doc.getFirstItem("Body");            

        System.out.println("doc: \n" + body.getFormattedText(true, 0, 0));

The println still has all lines of the body starting in column one. So the tabs and/or spaces are still being lost somehow.

Any other thoughts? I’ve wracked my brain trying to figure this one out.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Subject: RE: Try getFormattedText method of RichTextItem

Are you sure there are tabs there? First-line-indent and paragraph-indent styles are not tabs.

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Subject: RE: Try getFormattedText method of RichTextItem

I’m not positive they are tabs, hence why I said tabs and/or spaces are being dropped off.

How can I identify what they are?

I thought GetFormattedText would keep the format regardless of indents, tabs, spaces, etc.

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Subject: RE: Try getFormattedText method of RichTextItem

It will – if the tab-looking things are characters in the rich text. If the indents are the result of a paragraph style, then they aren’t represented by characters in the data, but by mark-up around the data. getFormattedText() can only handle the data in the field, not the markup.