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Fill PDF Form using XML - Aspose.Pdf.Kit

This demo shows, how to Fill form Fields by importing contents of XML document. Using ImportXml method in Form class of Aspose.Pdf.Kit component, developers can import values from XML file to fill form fields over Pdf document.

For more related information, please visit Import and Export into XML

Click Execute Demo to see how demo takes input PDF document and fills its form fields by importing a XML File . Results of this operation can be donwloaded by user for review.

JAVA

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package com.aspose.pdf.kit.demos.jsf;

import java.io.Serializable;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

import com.aspose.pdf.kit.*;

public class ImportXFDF extends BaseDemo
{
    // Default Constructor
    public ImportXFDF() {
    }
   
    /**
     * Execute request
     *
     * @return success
     */
    public Boolean execute(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

        try
        {
            String path = "/resources/";

            ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            //Assign an input and output pdf file.
            Form form = new Form(
                getFile(request, path + "Online.pdf"),
                outputStream);

            //Open an existed xfdf file.
            InputStream fdfInputStream = getFile(request, path + "Online.xfdf");

            form.importXfdf(fdfInputStream);

            form.close();

            //Close the output fdf stream.
            fdfInputStream.close();

            setResponse(FILE_NAME, outputStream);

            return true;
        }catch(Exception ex)
        {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return false;
    }
}

JAVA

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package com.aspose.pdf.kit.demos.jsf;

import java.io.Serializable;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;

import com.icesoft.faces.context.ByteArrayResource;
import com.icesoft.faces.context.Resource;

import java.lang.reflect.*;

public abstract class BaseDemo
{
    // Default Constructor
    public BaseDemo() {
        initLicense(new com.aspose.pdf.kit.License());
    }

    public abstract Boolean execute(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response);

    protected String getFileName(HttpServletRequest request, String absoluteName)
        throws java.io.FileNotFoundException
    {
        URL url = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(absoluteName);
        if (null==url && null!=request)
        {
            String path =
                request.getRealPath(absoluteName).replace("\\", "/");

            System.err.println("Failed to load " + absoluteName);
            System.err.println("Loading file from " + path);

            return path;
        }

        String path = new File(url.getPath()).getAbsolutePath();
        //return url.toString();
        return path;
    }

    protected InputStream getFile(HttpServletRequest request, String absoluteName)
        throws java.io.FileNotFoundException
    {
        InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(absoluteName);
        if (null==is && null!=request)
        {
            String path =
                request.getRealPath(absoluteName).replace("\\", "/");

            System.err.println("Failed to load " + absoluteName);
            System.err.println("Loading file from " + path);
            is = new FileInputStream(path);
        }

        return is;
    }

    public String generate() {

        FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();

        HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) context.getExternalContext().getRequest();
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) context.getExternalContext().getResponse();

        try
        {
            System.out.println("BaseGenerate called for " + this.toString());

            if (execute(request, response))
            {
                //context.responseComplete();
            }


        }catch(Exception ex)
        {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return "stay";
    }

    protected final String FILE_NAME = "result.pdf";

    public Resource getGeneratedfile() {
        byte[] res = getResult();
        if (null==res || res.length<1) {
            return null;
        }
        return new ByteArrayResource(res);
    }

    private String fileName = FILE_NAME;
    public String getFilename() {
        return fileName;
    }

    public void setFilename(String v) {

        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MMM-dd_hh_mm_ss-", Locale.US);
        String curDate = formatter.format(new Date());

        this.fileName = curDate + v;
    }

    public  byte[] getResult()
    {
        return response;
    }

    protected void setResponse(String fName, ByteArrayOutputStream out) throws IOException {
        setFilename(fName);
        response = out.toByteArray();
        out.close();
        // outputStream.write(this.response);
    }
    protected byte[] response;

    /**
     *
     * Initializes license (if demo license is available).
     * you may insert your licensing code here that would use obj's
     * setLicense based on InputStream rather than passing it on
     * to 3rd-party class.
     *
     */
    public static void initLicense(Object obj) {
        try {

            Class myclass = Class.forName("com.aspose.demos.Common");
            if (null==myclass) {
                System.out.println("initLicense not found");
                return ;
            }

            //Use reflection to list methods and invoke them
            Method[] methods = myclass.getMethods();
            Object object = myclass.newInstance();

            Class partypes[] = new Class[1];
            partypes[0] = Object.class;
           
            Method meth = myclass.getMethod("initLicense", partypes);
            if (null!=meth) {

                    System.out.println("Calling " + meth.getName());
                    Object arglist[] = new Object[1];
                    arglist[0] = obj;

                    meth.invoke(object, arglist);
            }
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
            // Ignore
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

XHTML

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:ice="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
      >

<ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/includes/templates/page-template.xhtml">
                        
    <ui:define name="pageTitle">
        Import XFDF - Aspose.PDF Demos
    </ui:define>

    <ui:define name="page-content">
        <ui:decorate template="/WEB-INF/includes/templates/tabbed_container.xhtml">
            <ui:define name="example">

   

<table width="90%" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="19"><img src="../../../../Common/images/heading_lft.jpg" alt="" width="19" height="41" /></td>
    <td width="100%" class="demos-heading-bg"><h2 class="demos-heading-bg"> &nbsp;Fill PDF Form using XML - Aspose.Pdf.Kit</h2></td>
    <td width="19"><img src="../../../../Common/images/heading_rt.jpg" alt="" width="19" height="41" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>

 <p class="componentDescriptionTxt">
 This demo shows, how to <b> Fill form Fields</b> by importing contents of XML document.

 Using <b> ImportXml </b> method in <a href="http://www.aspose.com/documentation/java-components/aspose.pdf.kit-for-java/com/aspose/pdf/kit/form.html"> Form </a> class of Aspose.Pdf.Kit component, developers can import values from XML file to fill form fields over Pdf document.
       
<br/><br/>
For more related information, please visit <a href="http://www.aspose.com/documentation/java-components/aspose.pdf.kit-for-java/import-and-export-into-xml.html"> Import and Export into XML </a>

<br/><br/>Click <b> Execute Demo </b> to see how demo takes <a href="../resources/student.pdf"> input PDF document </a> 
        and fills its form fields by importing a <a href="../resources/student.xml"> XML File </a>. Results
        of this operation can be donwloaded by user for review.
        </p>

            <h:commandButton id="generate" 
                action="#{mycontext.generate}"
                actionListener="#{mycontext.action}"
                value="Execute Demo"> 
                <f:attribute name="demo" value="importxfdf" />
            </h:commandButton>

            <ice:outputResource id="outputResource"
                mimeType="application/pdf"
                resource="#{mycontext.generatedfile}"
                fileName="#{mycontext.filename}"
                shared="false" />
            </ui:define>
        </ui:decorate>
    <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> </ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</html>