Download Interactive Form

Question

Hello!
Can an Interactive Form be generated without displaying it?
I want to ge hold of the pdfContent byte[], but don´t want to display the form.
Thank you!
Ilona Seifert

Answer 1

Hi Ilona,
You can try with the following:
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.adobe.pdfdocument.api.IWDPDFDocument;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.adobe.pdfdocument.api.IWDPDFDocumentCreationContext;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.adobe.pdfdocument.api.WDPDFDocumentFactory;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.basesrvc.util.IOUtil;
InputStream template = ... //your XDP file as an inputstream
String xmlData = ... //business data you want to merge your form template with
ByteArrayInputStream dataSourceInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlData.getBytes());
ByteArrayOutputStream dataSourceOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream templateSourceOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// convert InputStream to OutputStream
IOUtil.write(template, templateSourceOutputStream);
IOUtil.write(dataSourceInputStream,dataSourceOutputStream);
IWDPDFDocumentCreationContext creationContext = WDPDFDocumentFactory.getDocumentHandler().getDocumentCreationContext();
creationContext.setTemplate(templateSourceOutputStream);
creationContext.setData(dataSourceOutputStream);
creationContext.setDynamic(true);   //if you want to create dynamic interactive form
IWDPDFDocument pdfDoc = creationContext.execute();
  // create the PDF and store it as ByteArrayInputStream
  InputStream pdfInputStream = pdfDoc.getPDFAsStream();
Best Regards,
Ferenc
P.S.: If you use some older version and the "com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.adobe.pdfdocument.api" package is not available for you, then you can do the same with the old "com.sap.tc.webdynpro.pdfobject.api" package