streaming iText pdf directly to lotus email using xpages - xpages

Question

i'm trying to stream a newly generated pdf (using itext) directly to the body of lotus notes email as an attachment. but i'm getting following error while setting body of the email from bytes
"com.ibm.jscript.types.GeneratedWrapperObject$StaticField incompatible with com.ibm.jscript.types.FBSValue"
following is my completed code(placed in a button of an xpage). Any help would be greatly appreciated
session.setConvertMIME(false);
outputStream:java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
writePdf(outputStream);
var bytes = outputStream.toByteArray();
var inputStream:java.io.ByteArrayInputStream = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
var db:NotesDatabase= session.getDatabase("","mail.box")
if (!db.isOpen()) {
print ("No mailbox!")
}
else
{
var doc:NotesDocument=db.createDocument()
doc.replaceItemValue("Form","Memo")
doc.replaceItemValue("From",context.getUser().getCommonName())
doc.replaceItemValue("Principal",context.getUser().getCommonName())
doc.replaceItemValue("SendTo","a#b.com");
doc.replaceItemValue("Recipients","a#b.com");
doc.replaceItemValue("CopyTo","a#b.com");
doc.replaceItemValue("INetFrom","b#c.com");
var strFileName="temp.pdf"
var body:NotesMIMEEntity = doc.createMIMEEntity('Body');
var hdr:NotesMIMEHeader = body.createHeader("Subject");
hdr.setHeaderValAndParams("Subject")
hdr=body.createHeader("MIME-Version")
hdr.setHeaderValAndParams("1.0")
body.setPreamble("multipart message in MIME")
var child1:NotesMIMEEntity= body.createChildEntity()
hdr = child1.createHeader("Content-Disposition")
hdr.setHeaderValAndParams('attachment; filename="test.pdf"')
var stream:NotesStream = session.createStream();
stream.setContents(inputStream)
child1.setContentFromBytes(stream, "application/pdf", body.ENC_IDENTITY_BINARY)
child1.encodeContent(body.ENC_BASE64)
doc.closeMIMEEntities(true,"Body")
doc.save(true, true);
// Restore conversion
session.setConvertMIME(true);
}
function writePdf(outputStream) {
var document:com.itextpdf.text.Document = new com.itextpdf.text.Document();
var writer = com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter.getInstance(document,outputStream);
document.open();
document.addTitle("Test PDF");
document.addSubject("Testing email PDF");
document.addKeywords("iText, email");
document.addAuthor("Author");
document.addCreator("Creator");
var passChunk:com.itextpdf.text.Chunk = new com.itextpdf.text.Chunk("Hello");
document.add(new com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph(passChunk));
document.close();
}

Answer 1

you probably would be better off writing a small Java wrapper class.
For starters you need:
var stream:NotesStream = session.createStream();
stream.setContents(inputStream);
stream.setPosition(0);
so the stream is at the beginning.
Update:
Also you have:
var bytes = outputStream.toByteArray();
var inputStream:java.io.ByteArrayInputStream = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
stream.setContents(inputStream);
where I would write:
var bytes = outputStream.toByteArray();
stream.write(bytes);
Still, make a helper in Java.
Note: iText is GPL licenced. Unless the application you build is internal use only, you either need to buy a commercial license or GPL your code as well. Look at Apache PDFBox for an alternative