org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form
Class PDSignatureField

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField
      org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDSignatureField

All Implemented Interfaces:

COSObjectable

public class PDSignatureField
extends PDField

A class for handling the PDF field as a signature.

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $

Author:

Ben Litchfield, Thomas Chojecki

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField

FLAG_NO_EXPORT, FLAG_READ_ONLY, FLAG_REQUIRED

Constructor Summary

PDSignatureField(PDAcroForm theAcroForm)

PDSignatureField(PDAcroForm theAcroForm, COSDictionary field)

Method Summary

PDSeedValue	getSeedValue() (Optional; PDF 1.5) A seed value dictionary containing information that constrains the properties of a signature that is applied to the field.
PDSignature	getSignature() Get the signature dictionary.
String	getValue() Deprecated. use getSignature() instead
void	setSeedValue(PDSeedValue sv) (Optional; PDF 1.)
void	setSignature(PDSignature value) Add a signature dictionary to the signature field.
void	setValue(String value) Deprecated. use setSignature(PDSignature) instead
String	toString() Return a string rep of this object.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField

findFieldType, findKid, getAcroForm, getActions, getAlternateFieldName, getCOSObject, getDictionary, getFieldFlags, getFieldType, getFullyQualifiedName, getKids, getParent, getPartialName, getWidget, importFDF, isNoExport, isReadonly, isRequired, setAcroForm, setActions, setAlternateFieldName, setFieldFlags, setKids, setNoExport, setParent, setPartialName, setReadonly, setRequired

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PDSignatureField

public PDSignatureField(PDAcroForm theAcroForm,
                        COSDictionary field)
                 throws IOException

Parameters:

theAcroForm - The acroForm for this field.

field - The dictionary for the signature.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error while resolving partital name for the signature field

See Also:

PDField.PDField(PDAcroForm,COSDictionary)

PDSignatureField

public PDSignatureField(PDAcroForm theAcroForm)
                 throws IOException

Parameters:

theAcroForm - The acroForm for this field.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error while resolving partial name for the signature field or getting the widget object.

See Also:

PDField.PDField(PDAcroForm)

Method Detail

setValue

@Deprecated
public void setValue(String value)
              throws IOException

Deprecated. use setSignature(PDSignature) instead

Description copied from class: PDField

setValue sets the fields value to a given string.

Specified by:

setValue in class PDField

Parameters:

value - The new value for the field.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the appearance stream.

See Also:

PDField.setValue(java.lang.String)

getValue

@Deprecated
public String getValue()
                throws IOException

Deprecated. use getSignature() instead

Description copied from class: PDField

getValue gets the fields value to as a string.

Specified by:

getValue in class PDField

Returns:

The string value of this field.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the appearance stream.

See Also:

PDField.setValue(java.lang.String)

toString

public String toString()

Return a string rep of this object.

Overrides:

toString in class PDField

Returns:

A string rep of this object.

setSignature

public void setSignature(PDSignature value)

Add a signature dictionary to the signature field.

Parameters:

value - is the PDSignature

getSignature

public PDSignature getSignature()

Get the signature dictionary.

Returns:

the signature dictionary

getSeedValue

public PDSeedValue getSeedValue()

(Optional; PDF 1.5) A seed value dictionary containing information that constrains the properties of a signature that is applied to the field.

Returns:

the seed value dictionary as PDSeedValue

setSeedValue

public void setSeedValue(PDSeedValue sv)

(Optional; PDF 1.) A seed value dictionary containing information that constrains the properties of a signature that is applied to the field.

Parameters:

sv - is the seed value dictionary as PDSeedValue