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ykrrishna
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Does JavaBridge in testComplete work on a Python Project ?

I am working on a project to test the contents of a pdf file.   I was suggested with this URL in my previous question "https://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/testing-pdf-files-with-t...
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  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    8 years ago

    That article was created for PDFBox version 1.8.6. The current version is 2.0.4 and it appears to have introduced some breaking changes. For example, PDDocument.load no longer accepts file names and requires a java.io.File object instead. So you need to use something like:

    file = JavaClasses.java_io.File.newInstance("C:\\MyFile.pdf")
docObj = JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load_2(file)

    AlexKaras posted some more tips in another thread, check the first link in his answer.

     

    Also, the PDFBox API docs are the source of truth for parameter types, supported methods, etc.

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HKosova
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That article was created for PDFBox version 1.8.6. The current version is 2.0.4 and it appears to have introduced some breaking changes. For example, PDDocument.load no longer accepts file names and requires a java.io.File object instead. So you need to use something like:

file = JavaClasses.java_io.File.newInstance("C:\\MyFile.pdf")
docObj = JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load_2(file)

AlexKaras posted some more tips in another thread, check the first link in his answer.

 

Also, the PDFBox API docs are the source of truth for parameter types, supported methods, etc.

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ykrrishna
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

HKosovaThanks for the link and the trick. It worked well ! , with a little more tweaking.

 

AlexKarasI was actually working on the latest version 2.0.4. Your answer from the other chain helped me a lot. Thanks !

 

tristaanogreI missed out checking load_2 and 1  as you said. That was so lame of me, as said always "Continuous Learning" isn't ? :P  Thanks for pointing it out !