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iText in Action 2nd Edition

The ReplaceURL example is part of the book iText in Action (ISBN 9781935182610).
It's a small standalone application. You can use this example for inspiration, but please buy the book if there's something you don't understand about the example. Read Chapter 13 for more info. Note that this example depends on ChildFieldEvent, and maybe some other examples.

Chapter 13: PDFs inside-out

If you want this example to work, you need the following jars: iText.jar

part4.chapter13.ReplaceURL

If you compile and execute this example, you'll get the following result:
You can download the full source code of ReplaceURL, or read it here:
 
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/*
 * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition"
 * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610)
 * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/
 * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText.
 */
 
package part4.chapter13;
 
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import part2.chapter08.ChildFieldEvent;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.AcroFields;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.GrayColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfAction;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfFormField;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfName;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfString;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PushbuttonField;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.TextField;
 
public class ReplaceURL {
 
    /** The resulting PDF file. */
    public static final String RESULT1
        = "results/part4/chapter13/submit1.pdf";
    /** The resulting PDF file. */
    public static final String RESULT2
        = "results/part4/chapter13/submit2.pdf";
 
    /**
     * Creates a PDF document.
     * @param filename the path to the new PDF document
     * @throws    DocumentException 
     * @throws    IOException
     */
    public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException {
    	// step 1
        Document document = new Document();
        // step 2
        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
        PdfFormField personal = PdfFormField.createEmpty(writer);
        personal.setFieldName("personal");
        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
        PdfPCell cell;
 
        table.addCell("Your name:");
        cell = new PdfPCell();
        cell.setColspan(2);
        TextField field = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(0, 0), "name");
        field.setFontSize(12);
        cell.setCellEvent(new ChildFieldEvent(personal, field.getTextField(), 1));
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("Login:");
        cell = new PdfPCell();
        field = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(0, 0), "loginname");
        field.setFontSize(12);
        cell.setCellEvent(new ChildFieldEvent(personal, field.getTextField(), 1));
        table.addCell(cell);
        cell = new PdfPCell();
        field = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(0, 0), "password");
        field.setOptions(TextField.PASSWORD);
        field.setFontSize(12);
        cell.setCellEvent(new ChildFieldEvent(personal, field.getTextField(), 1));
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("Your motivation:");
        cell = new PdfPCell();
        cell.setColspan(2);
        cell.setFixedHeight(60);
        field = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(0, 0), "reason");
        field.setOptions(TextField.MULTILINE);
        field.setFontSize(12);
        cell.setCellEvent(new ChildFieldEvent(personal, field.getTextField(), 1));
        table.addCell(cell);
        document.add(table);
        writer.addAnnotation(personal);
 
        PushbuttonField button1 = new PushbuttonField(
            writer, new Rectangle(90, 660, 140, 690), "post");
        button1.setText("POST");
        button1.setBackgroundColor(new GrayColor(0.7f));
        button1.setVisibility(PushbuttonField.VISIBLE_BUT_DOES_NOT_PRINT);
        PdfFormField submit1 = button1.getField();
        submit1.setAction(PdfAction.createSubmitForm("/book/request", null,
            PdfAction.SUBMIT_HTML_FORMAT | PdfAction.SUBMIT_COORDINATES));
        writer.addAnnotation(submit1);
        // step 5
        document.close();
    }
 
    /**
     * Manipulates a PDF file src with the file dest as result
     * @param src the original PDF
     * @param dest the resulting PDF
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws DocumentException
     */
    public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest)
        throws IOException, DocumentException {
        PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src);
        AcroFields form = reader.getAcroFields();
        AcroFields.Item item = form.getFieldItem("post");
        PdfDictionary field = item.getMerged(0);
        PdfDictionary action = field.getAsDict(PdfName.A);
        PdfDictionary f = action.getAsDict(PdfName.F);
        f.put(PdfName.F, new PdfString("http://itextpdf.com:8080/book/request"));
        PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        stamper.close();
        reader.close();
    }
 
    /**
     * Main method.
     *
     * @param    args    no arguments needed
     * @throws DocumentException 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
        throws IOException, DocumentException {
        ReplaceURL form = new ReplaceURL();
        form.createPdf(RESULT1);
        form.manipulatePdf(RESULT1, RESULT2);
    }
}