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Domino app - how to access the source document in java during custom file attachment routine

This is a non-xpages application.
I have inherited some code that I need to tweak....this code is used in a drag&drop file attachment subform. Normally, this will create a document in a separate dedicated .nsf that stores only attachments, and uses the main document's universalid as a reference to link the two....I need to change what the reference is to the value in a field already on the main document (where the subform is).
Java is challenging to me, but all I need to do is GET the value of the field from the main document (which has not necessarily been saved yet) and write that string value onto the attachment doc in that storage database, so I think I am just needing help with one line of code.
I will paste the relevant function here and hopefully someone can tell me how I get that value, or what else they need to see what is going on here.
You can see my commented-out attempt to write the field 'parentRef' in this code
...
private void storeUploadedFile( UploadedFile uploadedFile, Database dbTarget) {
File correctedFile = null;
RichTextItem rtFiles = null;
Document doc = null;
String ITEM_NAME_FILES = "file";
try {
if (uploadedFile==null) {
return;
}
doc = dbTarget.createDocument();
doc.replaceItemValue("form", "frmFileUpload");
doc.replaceItemValue("uploadedBy", dbTarget.getParent().getEffectiveUserName() );
Utils.setDate(doc, "uploadedAt", new Date() );
doc.replaceItemValue("parentUnid", parentUnid);
//doc.replaceItemValue("parentRef", ((Document) dbTarget.getParent()).getItemValue("attachmentDocKey"));
//get uploaded file and attach it to the document
fileName = uploadedFile.getClientFileName();
File tempFile = uploadedFile.getServerFile(); //the uploaded file with a cryptic name
fileSize = tempFile.length();
targetUnid = doc.getUniversalID();
correctedFile = new java.io.File( tempFile.getParentFile().getAbsolutePath() + java.io.File.separator + fileName );
//rename the file on the OS so we can embed it with the correct (original) name
boolean success = tempFile.renameTo(correctedFile);
if (success) {
//embed original file in target document
rtFiles = doc.createRichTextItem(ITEM_NAME_FILES);
rtFiles.embedObject(lotus.domino.EmbeddedObject.EMBED_ATTACHMENT, "", correctedFile.getAbsolutePath(), null);
success = doc.save();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
com.gadjj.Utils.recycle(rtFiles, doc);
try {
if (correctedFile != null) {
//rename the temporary file back to its original name so it's automatically
//removed from the os' file system.
correctedFile.renameTo(uploadedFile.getServerFile());
}
} catch(Exception ee) { ee.printStackTrace(); }
}
}
}
...

dbTarget.getParent does not do what you think it does. It returns a Session object that is the parent session containing all your objects. Casting it to (Document) won't give you your main document.
I don't see the declaration for it, but you appear to have a variable available called parentUNID. You can use it to get a handle on the main document.
You need to use the parentUNID value in a call to getDocumentByUNID() in order to retrieve the Document object representing your main document. But in order to do that, you need the Database object for the nsf file containing the main document, and if I understand you correctly, that is a different database than targetDb.
I'm going to have to assume that you already have that Database object in a variable called parentDb, or that you know the path to the NSF and can open it. In either case, your code would look like this (without error handling):
Document parentDoc = parentDb.getDocumentByUNID(parentUNID);
doc.replaceItemvalue("parentRef", parentDoc.getItemValue("attachmentDocKey"));

Neither an FOEventHandler, nor a Renderer could be found for this output format

I am doing a conversion from docx to pdf format. I successfully did the variable replacement and have a WordprocessingMLPackage template.
I have tried both approches. The old deprcated version of converting to pdf and the newer method. Both fails giving this exception error
Don't know how to handle "application/pdf" as an output format.
Neither an FOEventHandler, nor a Renderer could be found for this
output format. Error: UnsupportedOpertaionException
I have tried everything I can. This thing works on my local machine but now at my workplace. I think I have all the necessary jars. Can u please instruct what course of action should I take.
Code :
Method 1:
Docx4J.toPDF(template, new FileOutputStream("newPdf.pdf"));
Method 2:
public static void createPDF(WordprocessingMLPackage template, String outputPath) {
try {
// 2) Prepare Pdf settings
PdfSettings pdfSettings = new PdfSettings();
// 3) Convert WordprocessingMLPackage to Pdf
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File(
outputPath));
PdfConversion converter = new org.docx4j.convert.out.pdf.viaXSLFO.Conversion(
template);
converter.output(out, pdfSettings);
} catch (Throwable e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Both are giving the same error. Any help is appreciated!

My issue is resolved. The problem was that the required fop-1.1.jar was there on my eclipse classpath but it was not there on the local server classpath. I added them there and it worked like a charm.

How to attach single or multiple attachments to CouchbaseLite document - Android?

I want to attach files to CouchbaseLite document. How can I do so? I did not find any code sample on official CBLite website for this - CBLite code Sample. I am still stuck how to accomplish it.
One way to do this in code is:
Document document = mDatabaseLocal.createDocument();
document.getCurrentRevision().createRevision().setAttachment(name, contentType, contentStream);
But this is not clear. *What should be the name?* - It is the absolute path of the attachment on your local disk?
For contentType: I do not know if there exists any enum class or constants that I can pass as contentType.
How would I attach multiple files to a document? Do I need to create unsavedRevision for every attachment?

The name must be unique per attachment, and doesn't refer to the local file, it refers to the name that you want to fetch it from on the document.
In this case you would call createRevision() once and then setAttachment() multiple times on the revision, before saving it.

you have to put an inputstream as attachment to your document.
A example can be found here CouchBase Attachment Example.
You have to convert each file into an InputStream and then you can set it to the document.
For convert you can use something like this:
private InputStream getAsStream(YourData data)
{
baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try
{
objOstream = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
objOstream.writeObject(data);
} catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
bArray = baos.toByteArray();
bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bArray);
return bais;
}
In this example YourData can be every object or some of your own objectTypes.
Hope this explanation will help you.

Read email contents using Apache Commons Email

I've different properties file as shown below:
abc_en.properties
abc_ch.properties
abc_de.properties
All of these contain HTML tags & some static contents along with some image urls.
I want to send email message using apache commons email & I'm able to compose the name of the template through Java using locale as well.
String name = abc_ch.properties;
Now, how do I read it to send it as a Html Msg parameter using Java?
HtmlEmail e = new HtmlEmail();
e.setHostName("my.mail.com");
...
e.setHtmlMsg(msg);
How do I get the msg param to get the contents from the file? Any efficient & nice solun?
Can any one provide sample java code?
Note: The properties file has dynamic entries for username & some other fields like Dear ,....How do I substitute those dynamically?
Thanks

I would assume that *.properties is a text file.
If so, then do a File read into a String
eg:
String name = getContents(new java.io.File("/path/file.properties");
public static String getContents(File aFile) {
StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader input = null;
try {
InputStreamReader fr=new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(aFile), "UTF8");
input = new BufferedReader( fr );
String line = null;
while (( line = input.readLine()) != null){
contents.append(line);
contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
//ex.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException ex){
//ex.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
try {
if (input!= null) {
input.close();
}
}
catch (IOException ex) {
//ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
return contents.toString();
}
regards

Hi Mike,
Well, I kind of guess that you are trying to send mails in multiple languages by rendering the elements from different property files at runtime. Also, you said "locale". Are you using the concept of "Resource Bundles )"? Well, in that case before you send mails,
1)You need to understand the naming conventions for naming a property file, without which the java compiler will not be able to load the appropriate property file at run time.
For this read the first page on the Resource Bundles page.
2) Once your naming conventions is fine, you can load the appropriate prop file like this:
Locale yourLocale = new Locale("en", "US");
ResourceBundle rb = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourceBundleFileName", yourLocale);
3) Resource Bundle property file is nothing but a (Key,Value) pairs. Hence you can retrieve the value of a key like this:
String dearString = rb.getString("Dear");
String emailBody= rb.getString("emailBody");
4) You can later use this values for setting the attributes in your commons-email api.
Hope you find this useful!

Has anyone else seen the Java XML FastInfoset library corrupt text?

I read the claims from Sun people about the wonderful space economy of not only using FastInfoSet, but using it with an external vocab. The code for this purpose is include in the most recent version (1.2.8) but it is not exactly fully documented.
For many files, this works just great for me. However, we've come up with an XML file which, when serialized from DOM with the vocab I created (using the generator in the FI library), and then read back into DOM, mismatches. The mismatches are all in PC-data.
I just call setVocabulary on the serializer and setExternalVocabulary with a map from URI to vocabulary on the reader.
I had to invent my own mechanism to actually serialize a vocabulary; there didn't seem to be one anywhere in the FI library.
One fiddly bit of business is that the org.jvnet.fastinfoset.Vocabulary class is what the generator gives you, but it's not what the parsers and serializers eat. I made arrangements to serialize these, and then use the code below to turn them into the needed objects:
private static void initializeAnalysis() {
InputStream is = FastInfosetUtils.class.getResourceAsStream(ANALYSIS_VOCAB_CLASSPATH);
try {
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(is);
analysisJvnetVocab = (SerializableVocabulary) ois.readObject();
ois.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
analysisSerializerVocab = new SerializerVocabulary(analysisJvnetVocab.getVocabulary(), false);
analysisParserVocab = new ParserVocabulary(analysisJvnetVocab.getVocabulary());
}
and then, to actually write a document:
SerializerVocabulary fullVocab = new SerializerVocabulary();
fullVocab.setExternalVocabulary(ANALYSIS_VOCAB_URI, analysisSerializerVocab, false);
// pass fullVocab to setVocabulary.
and to read:
Map<Object, Object> vocabMap = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
vocabMap.put(ANALYSIS_VOCAB_URI, analysisParserVocab);
// pass map into setExternalVocabulary
I could easily imagine that the recipe for creating serialization vocabularies is not right, it's not like I was reading a tutorial. Anyone happen to know?
UPDATE
Since no one 'round here had anything to add to this question, I make a test case and filed a bug report. Somewhat to my surprise, it turned out that it was, in fact, a bug, and a fix has been made.