In my production pipeline I need to generate a few hundred PDF from HTML. For this scenario I first convert the HTML into XHTML. Than im passing the 'cleaned' XHTML and the uri to the renderer.
Since the *.css and imageFiles are equal for all the XHTML files I dont need to resolve them all the time I process a file. Im successfully using the following code for caching images. How can I cache .css files aswell? I want to avoid putting all files into my classpath.
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
ResourceLoaderUserAgent callback = new ResourceLoaderUserAgent(renderer.getOutputDevice());
callback.setSharedContext(renderer.getSharedContext());
for (MyObject myObject : myObjectList) {
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);
final DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
documentBuilderFactory.setValidating(false);
DocumentBuilder builder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
org.w3c.dom.Document document = builder.parse(myObject.getLocalPath); // full path to .xhtml
renderer.getSharedContext().setUserAgentCallback(callback);
renderer.setDocument(document, myObject.getUri());
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.flush();
os.close();
}
...
private static class ResourceLoaderUserAgent extends ITextUserAgent
{
public ResourceLoaderUserAgent(ITextOutputDevice outputDevice) {
super(outputDevice);
}
protected InputStream resolveAndOpenStream(String uri) {
InputStream is = super.resolveAndOpenStream(uri);
System.out.println("IN resolveAndOpenStream() " + uri);
return is;
}
}