PdfSource content of interactive form in Java Web Dynpro

Question

Hi All,
I am using Java web dynpro with interactive form. When I display the contents of the pdfSource of the interactive form into a text file, I see the following which is not a true binary content. Could u please let me know why the content is represented in the form other than binary?
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0000000153 65535 f
0000000154 65535 f
trailer
<</Size 156/Root 1 0 R>>
xref
0 0
trailer
<</Size 156/Prev 32208/XRefStm 2120/Root 1 0 R/Info 3 0 R/ID[<991012CC1DD111B20A00FFBFDB48FD64><991077C51DD111B20A00060100000680>]>>
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%%EOF
Thanks & Regards,
Jyoti

Answer 1

Hi Naidu
I have written the contents of the pdfsource to a file in the server using the below code:
byte b[] = wdContext.currentContextElement().getPdfSource();
File file = new File("C:
Severance.pdf");
long length = file.length();
FileOutputStream os;
try {
     os = new FileOutputStream(file);
     os.write(b);
     os.close();                         
catch (Exception e)
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     wdThis.wdGetAPI().getComponent().getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Some Exception "+e);
     e.printStackTrace();
And i have added a File Download element in the Application and have implemented the below piece of code for it:
IWDAttributeInfo attInfo = wdContext.currentContextElement().node().getNodeInfo().getAttribute("ctx_downloadpdfsrc");
ISimpleTypeModifiable type = attInfo.getModifiableSimpleType();
IWDModifiableBinaryType binaryType = (IWDModifiableBinaryType) type;
binaryType.setMimeType(WDWebResourceType.TXT);
String fileName ="C:
Severance.pdf";
// path to the source file
/* converts the binary file to a byte array and moves it to the text element */
try
      File file = new File(fileName);
      FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     int length;
     byte[] part = new byte [10 * 1024];
     while ((length = in.read(part)) != -1)
           out.write(part, 0, length);
      in.close();
                          wdContext.currentContextElement().setCtx_downloadpdfsrc(out.toByteArray());
catch(Exception e)
                          wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(" !!!!!!!!!!!!! "+e);
                          throw new WDRuntimeException(e);
Other than this, if we simply write this line in the code it will display the entire content of the pdfSource on the screen when deployed:
wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(wdContext.currentContextElement().getPdfSource().toString());
Regards,
Jyoti