com.itextpdf.text.pdf.events
Class PdfPTableEventForwarder

java.lang.Object
  com.itextpdf.text.pdf.events.PdfPTableEventForwarder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PdfPTableEvent, PdfPTableEventAfterSplit, PdfPTableEventSplit

public class PdfPTableEventForwarder
extends Object
implements PdfPTableEventAfterSplit

If you want to add more than one page event to a PdfPTable, you have to construct a PdfPTableEventForwarder, add the different events to this object and add the forwarder to the PdfWriter.

Field Summary

protected ArrayList<PdfPTableEvent>

events ArrayList containing all the PageEvents that have to be executed.

Constructor Summary

PdfPTableEventForwarder()

Method Summary

void	addTableEvent(PdfPTableEvent event) Add a page event to the forwarder.
void	afterSplitTable(PdfPTable table, PdfPRow startRow, int startIdx) This method is called to indicate that table has been split.
void	splitTable(PdfPTable table) This method is called to indicate that table is being split.
void	tableLayout(PdfPTable table, float[][] widths, float[] heights, int headerRows, int rowStart, PdfContentByte[] canvases) This method is called at the end of the table rendering.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

events

protected ArrayList<PdfPTableEvent> events

ArrayList containing all the PageEvents that have to be executed.

Constructor Detail

PdfPTableEventForwarder

public PdfPTableEventForwarder()

Method Detail

addTableEvent

public void addTableEvent(PdfPTableEvent event)

Add a page event to the forwarder.

Parameters:

event - an event that has to be added to the forwarder.

tableLayout

public void tableLayout(PdfPTable table,
                        float[][] widths,
                        float[] heights,
                        int headerRows,
                        int rowStart,
                        PdfContentByte[] canvases)

Description copied from interface: PdfPTableEvent

This method is called at the end of the table rendering. The text or graphics are added to one of the 4 PdfContentByte contained in canvases.
The indexes to canvases are:

• PdfPTable.BASECANVAS - the original PdfContentByte. Anything placed here will be under the table.
• PdfPTable.BACKGROUNDCANVAS - the layer where the background goes to.
• PdfPTable.LINECANVAS - the layer where the lines go to.
• PdfPTable.TEXTCANVAS - the layer where the text go to. Anything placed here will be over the table.

The layers are placed in sequence on top of each other.

The widths and heights have the coordinates of the cells.
The size of the widths array is the number of rows. Each sub-array in widths corresponds to the x column border positions where the first element is the x coordinate of the left table border and the last element is the x coordinate of the right table border. If colspan is not used all the sub-arrays in widths are the same.
For the heights the first element is the y coordinate of the top table border and the last element is the y coordinate of the bottom table border.

Specified by:

tableLayout in interface PdfPTableEvent

Parameters:

table - the PdfPTable in use

widths - an array of arrays with the cells' x positions. It has the length of the number of rows

heights - an array with the cells' y positions. It has a length of the number of rows + 1

headerRows - the number of rows defined for the header.

rowStart - the first row number after the header

canvases - an array of PdfContentByte

See Also:

PdfPTableEvent.tableLayout(com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable, float[][], float[], int, int, com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte[])

splitTable

public void splitTable(PdfPTable table)

Description copied from interface: PdfPTableEventSplit

This method is called to indicate that table is being split. It's called before the tableLayout method and before the table is drawn.

Specified by:

splitTable in interface PdfPTableEventSplit

Parameters:

table - the PdfPTable in use

Since:

iText 5.0.6

See Also:

PdfPTableEventSplit.splitTable(com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable)

afterSplitTable

public void afterSplitTable(PdfPTable table,
                            PdfPRow startRow,
                            int startIdx)

Description copied from interface: PdfPTableEventAfterSplit

This method is called to indicate that table has been split. It's called after the tableLayout method and after the table has been drawn on the previous page but before the rest of the table is laid out on the following page. It is meant to allow modifications of the table, e.g. by changing cells. This is useful for situations when some information has to be repeated, like putting "still " in the top cell of a column where categorizations for blocks of rows are placed, e.g.

 2012  | Jan | 1000 $ | 2000 $ 
       | Feb |  900 $ | 2100 $
 
 -------8<----- Page break -------------
 
 still | Mar | 1100 $ | 1900 $ 
 2012  | Apr | 1200 $ | 1800 $ 
       | May | 1200 $ | 2200 $
 ...
 

While this might be emulated by just stamping "still 2012" on the page using the currently available event callback tableLayout, that would fail in the case of the page break happening after the November line, because the text "still 2012" would then overlap with the new entry "2013" in the 2013 January line. This problem does not exist when modifying the first cell on the new page because that cell will the be laid out to have sufficient height so that no overlaps occur. Example:

 public void afterSplitTable(PdfPTable table, PdfPRow startRow, int startIdx) { 
     PdfPCell cell = startRow.getCells()[0]; 
     cell.addElement(new Paragraph("still " + currentYear)); 
 }
 

Note that determining the value of currentYear can be done in tableLayout by noting the sizes of the tables laid out there and comparing them with the tracked row indices of the years (via table.getRows()).

Specified by:

afterSplitTable in interface PdfPTableEventAfterSplit

Parameters:

table - the PdfPTable in use

startRow - the first PdfPRow of the table body on the following page

startIdx - the index of that row

Since:

iText 5.4.3

See Also:

PdfPTableEventAfterSplit.afterSplitTable(com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable, com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPRow, int)