org.foray.pdf.object
Class PDFAction

java.lang.Object
  org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject
      org.foray.pdf.object.PDFAction

Direct Known Subclasses:

PDFGoTo, PDFGoToRemote, PDFUri

public abstract class PDFAction
extends PDFObject

class representing an action object.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject

EOL, MSG_EOL, XREF_EOL

Constructor Summary

PDFAction()
empty constructor for PDFAction.

PDFAction(PDFDocument doc)
Create an Action object.

Method Summary

abstract String

getAction() represent the action to call this method should be implemented to return the action which gets called by the Link Object.

Methods inherited from class org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject

bufferToByteArray, byteArrayToStream, getCharsPerLine, getGeneration, getLogger, getNumber, getPDFDocument, output, pdfID, pdfReference, setNumber, stringToByteArray

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PDFAction

public PDFAction(PDFDocument doc)

Create an Action object.

Parameters:

doc - The parent PDFDocument.

PDFAction

public PDFAction()

empty constructor for PDFAction. this constructor is used when there is no additional object being created

Method Detail

getAction

public abstract String getAction()

represent the action to call this method should be implemented to return the action which gets called by the Link Object. This could be a reference to another object or the specific destination of the link

Returns:

the action to place next to /A within a Link