Constructor Detail

• COSObject

  public COSObject(COSBase object)
            throws IOException

  Constructor.

  Parameters:

  object - The object that this encapsulates.

  Throws:

  IOException - If there is an error with the object passed in.

Method Detail

• getDictionaryObject

  public COSBase getDictionaryObject(COSName key)

  This will get the dictionary object in this object that has the name key and if it is a pdfobjref then it will dereference that and return it.

  Parameters:

  key - The key to the value that we are searching for.

  Returns:

  The pdf object that matches the key.

• getItem

  public COSBase getItem(COSName key)

  This will get the dictionary object in this object that has the name key.

  Parameters:

  key - The key to the value that we are searching for.

  Returns:

  The pdf object that matches the key.

• getObject

  public COSBase getObject()

  This will get the object that this object encapsulates.

  Returns:

  The encapsulated object.

• setObject

  public final void setObject(COSBase object)
                       throws IOException

  This will set the object that this object encapsulates.

  Parameters:

  object - The new object to encapsulate.

  Throws:

  IOException - If there is an error setting the updated object.

• toString

  public String toString()

  Overrides:

  toString in class Object

• getObjectNumber

  public long getObjectNumber()

  Getter for property objectNumber.

  Returns:

  Value of property objectNumber.

• setObjectNumber

  public void setObjectNumber(long objectNum)

  Setter for property objectNumber.

  Parameters:

  objectNum - New value of property objectNumber.

• getGenerationNumber

  public int getGenerationNumber()

  Getter for property generationNumber.

  Returns:

  Value of property generationNumber.

• setGenerationNumber

  public void setGenerationNumber(int generationNumberValue)

  Setter for property generationNumber.

  Parameters:

  generationNumberValue - New value of property generationNumber.

• accept

  public Object accept(ICOSVisitor visitor)
                throws IOException

  visitor pattern double dispatch method.

  Specified by:

  accept in class COSBase

  Parameters:

  visitor - The object to notify when visiting this object.

  Returns:

  any object, depending on the visitor implementation, or null

  Throws:

  IOException - If an error occurs while visiting this object.

• isNeedToBeUpdated

  public boolean isNeedToBeUpdated()

  Get the update state for the COSWriter.

  Specified by:

  isNeedToBeUpdated in interface COSUpdateInfo

  Returns:

  the update state.

• setNeedToBeUpdated

  public void setNeedToBeUpdated(boolean flag)

  Set the update state of the dictionary for the COSWriter.

  Specified by:

  setNeedToBeUpdated in interface COSUpdateInfo

  Parameters:

  flag - the update state.