org.faceless.pdf2.viewer2
Class ViewerFeature

java.lang.Object
  org.faceless.pdf2.viewer2.ViewerFeature

Direct Known Subclasses:

ActionHandler, AnnotationComponentFactory, DragAndDrop, EditMenu, Exporter, Importer, Menus, MultiWindow, OpenRecent, SidePanelFactory, SignatureProvider, TextHighlighter, ToolbarDisabling, ToolbarFloating, Toolbars, ViewerWidget

public abstract class ViewerFeature
extends Object

The ViewerFeature class can be used to control the various features of the PDFViewer, such as widgets, side panels, annotations and action handlers. Most of the interesting methods are in the subclasses, particularly ViewerWidget, but the getAllFeatures() method is commonly called to return a list of all the features available to the viewer.

The list of default features is specified by the org.faceless.pdf2.viewer2.ViewerFeature service provider file. The bfopdf.jar file contains this file in the META-INF/services folder, which lists the classnames of each feature to load by default. Each feature specified this way must be a subclass of ViewerFeature, and contain a zero-parameter constructor or a getInstance() method that returns a singleton. Additional features may be specified this way in any other Jars available to the application. See the Java Service Provider Interface documentation for more information.

See the viewer tutorial for more detail on how to use this class and the "viewer" package.

This code is copyright the Big Faceless Organization. You're welcome to use, modify and distribute it in any form in your own projects, provided those projects continue to make use of the Big Faceless PDF library.

Since:

2.8

Constructor Summary

protected

ViewerFeature(String name) Create a new ViewerFeature

Method Summary

static List	getAllFeatures() Return a Collection of all the features available, which can be passed to the PDFViewer constructor or used as a base for your own set of features.
String	getCustomJavaScript(String type, String name) Return any custom JavaScript that needs to be run by this feature on the specified JavaScript event.
protected String	getFeatureProperty(PDFViewer viewer, String key) Get a custom property for this feature, as specified by the viewer.
String	getName() Return the name of this Feature
void	initialize(PDFViewer viewer) Called when the feature is first added to a viewer
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ViewerFeature

protected ViewerFeature(String name)

Create a new ViewerFeature

Parameters:

name - the name of the feature

Method Detail

getAllFeatures

public static final List getAllFeatures()

Return a Collection of all the features available, which can be passed to the PDFViewer constructor or used as a base for your own set of features.

initialize

public void initialize(PDFViewer viewer)

Called when the feature is first added to a viewer

getName

public final String getName()

Return the name of this Feature

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getCustomJavaScript

public String getCustomJavaScript(String type,
                                  String name)

Return any custom JavaScript that needs to be run by this feature on the specified JavaScript event. The default implementation returns null

Parameters:

type - the Event type : "App", "Doc" etc.

name - the Event name : "Init", "Open", "WillClose" etc.

Since:

2.10.6

getFeatureProperty

protected final String getFeatureProperty(PDFViewer viewer,
                                          String key)

Get a custom property for this feature, as specified by the viewer. This method provides a convenient, standardised way to access properties for a feature at runtime, by querying the PropertyManager returned by PDFViewer.getPropertyManager(). The key is prefixed by the name of this class, and if no value is found the superclass is specified.

For example, calling this method from a KeyStoreSignatureProvider class as getFeatureProperty(viewer, "name") will first check the property feature.KeyStoreSignatureProvider.name. If no matching value is found, SignatureServiceProvider.name and then ViewerFeature.name are checked. Custom subclasses outside the org.faceless.pdf2.viewer2 package will have their full classnames used - as an example, a subclass of KeyStoreSignatureProvider called com.mycompany.MyProvider would check com.mycompany.MyProvider.name first.

Parameters:

viewer - the PDFViewer to get the PropertyManager from

key - the property key

Since:

2.11