Create PDF file in memory using PdfStamper

[Peyman Pouryekta <pp (at) mark5.de>]

Ok.
Thanks for the trouble.


Bruno Lowagie (iText) schrieb:
> Peyman Pouryekta wrote:
> 
>> I am using the spring framework and there is a class called 
>> AbstractPdfView to create PDFs with iText.
>> there is one method to create a PDF.
>>
>> protected abstract void buildPdfDocument(Map model,
>>   com.lowagie.text.Document document,
>>   com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer,
>>   HttpServletRequest request,
>>   HttpServletResponse response)
>>     throws Exception
>>
>> Subclasses must implement this method to build an iText PDF 
>> document, given the model. Called between Document.open() and 
>> Document.close() calls.
> 
> Apparently, this is a limitation imposed by Spring.
> 
>> Note that the passed-in HTTP response is just supposed to be used 
>> for setting cookies or other HTTP headers. The built PDF document itself 
>> will automatically get written to the response after this method returns.
> 
> Then what is the PdfWriter used for?
> 
>> So I need a document to create a PDF.
> 
> And a PdfWriter instance.
> 
>> How can I add the ByteArrayOutputStream Document
> 
> I don't know how Spring works.
> Unlike many of my colleagues that are working with
> Spring, I didn't have the time to have a look at
> the framework.
> 
>>> This is an altered code snippet:
> 
> Document document = new Document();
> ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(document, baos);
> document.open();
> // do stuff;
> document.close();
> baos.writeTo(response.getOutputStream());
> 
> br,
> Bruno
> 
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