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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.io.MemoryUsageSetting;
import org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentInformation;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDMetadata;
import org.apache.xmpbox.XMPMetadata;
import org.apache.xmpbox.schema.DublinCoreSchema;
import org.apache.xmpbox.schema.PDFAIdentificationSchema;
import org.apache.xmpbox.schema.XMPBasicSchema;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.BadFieldValueException;
import org.apache.xmpbox.xml.XmpSerializer;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.pdfbox.io.IOUtils;

/**
 *
 * This example demonstrates the use of the new methods {@link PDFMergerUtility#setDestinationDocumentInformation(org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentInformation)
 * } and {@link PDFMergerUtility#setDestinationMetadata(org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDMetadata)
 * } that were added in April 2016. These allow to control the meta data in a merge without having
 * to reopen the result file.
 *
 * @author Alexander Kriegisch
 */
public class PDFMergerExample {
    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(PDFMergerExample.class);

    /**
     * Creates a compound PDF document from a list of input documents.
     * <p>
     * The merged document is PDF/A-1b compliant, provided the source documents are as well. It
     * contains document properties title, creator and subject, currently hard-coded.
     *
     * @param sources list of source PDF document streams.
     * @return compound PDF document as a readable input stream.
     * @throws IOException if anything goes wrong during PDF merge.
     */
    public InputStream merge(final List<InputStream> sources) throws IOException {
        String title = "My title";
        String creator = "Alexander Kriegisch";
        String subject = "Subject with umlauts ";

        ByteArrayOutputStream mergedPDFOutputStream = null;
        COSStream cosStream = null;
        try {
            // If you're merging in a servlet, you can modify this example to use the outputStream only
            // as the response as shown here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/36894346/535646
            mergedPDFOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            cosStream = new COSStream();

            PDFMergerUtility pdfMerger = createPDFMergerUtility(sources, mergedPDFOutputStream);

            // PDF and XMP properties must be identical, otherwise document is not PDF/A compliant
            PDDocumentInformation pdfDocumentInfo = createPDFDocumentInfo(title, creator, subject);
            PDMetadata xmpMetadata = createXMPMetadata(cosStream, title, creator, subject);
            pdfMerger.setDestinationDocumentInformation(pdfDocumentInfo);
            pdfMerger.setDestinationMetadata(xmpMetadata);

            LOG.info("Merging " + sources.size() + " source documents into one PDF");
            pdfMerger.mergeDocuments(MemoryUsageSetting.setupMainMemoryOnly());
            LOG.info("PDF merge successful, size = {" + mergedPDFOutputStream.size() + "} bytes");

            return new ByteArrayInputStream(mergedPDFOutputStream.toByteArray());
        } catch (BadFieldValueException e) {
            throw new IOException("PDF merge problem", e);
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            throw new IOException("PDF merge problem", e);
        } finally {
            for (InputStream source : sources) {
                IOUtils.closeQuietly(source);
            }
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(cosStream);
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(mergedPDFOutputStream);
        }
    }

    private PDFMergerUtility createPDFMergerUtility(List<InputStream> sources,
            ByteArrayOutputStream mergedPDFOutputStream) {
        LOG.info("Initialising PDF merge utility");
        PDFMergerUtility pdfMerger = new PDFMergerUtility();
        pdfMerger.addSources(sources);
        pdfMerger.setDestinationStream(mergedPDFOutputStream);
        return pdfMerger;
    }

    private PDDocumentInformation createPDFDocumentInfo(String title, String creator, String subject) {
        LOG.info("Setting document info (title, author, subject) for merged PDF");
        PDDocumentInformation documentInformation = new PDDocumentInformation();
        documentInformation.setTitle(title);
        documentInformation.setCreator(creator);
        documentInformation.setSubject(subject);
        return documentInformation;
    }

    private PDMetadata createXMPMetadata(COSStream cosStream, String title, String creator, String subject)
            throws BadFieldValueException, TransformerException, IOException {
        LOG.info("Setting XMP metadata (title, author, subject) for merged PDF");
        XMPMetadata xmpMetadata = XMPMetadata.createXMPMetadata();

        // PDF/A-1b properties
        PDFAIdentificationSchema pdfaSchema = xmpMetadata.createAndAddPFAIdentificationSchema();
        pdfaSchema.setPart(1);
        pdfaSchema.setConformance("B");

        // Dublin Core properties
        DublinCoreSchema dublinCoreSchema = xmpMetadata.createAndAddDublinCoreSchema();
        dublinCoreSchema.setTitle(title);
        dublinCoreSchema.addCreator(creator);
        dublinCoreSchema.setDescription(subject);

        // XMP Basic properties
        XMPBasicSchema basicSchema = xmpMetadata.createAndAddXMPBasicSchema();
        Calendar creationDate = Calendar.getInstance();
        basicSchema.setCreateDate(creationDate);
        basicSchema.setModifyDate(creationDate);
        basicSchema.setMetadataDate(creationDate);
        basicSchema.setCreatorTool(creator);

        // Create and return XMP data structure in XML format
        ByteArrayOutputStream xmpOutputStream = null;
        OutputStream cosXMPStream = null;
        try {
            xmpOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            cosXMPStream = cosStream.createOutputStream();
            new XmpSerializer().serialize(xmpMetadata, xmpOutputStream, true);
            cosXMPStream.write(xmpOutputStream.toByteArray());
            return new PDMetadata(cosStream);
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(xmpOutputStream);
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(cosXMPStream);
        }
    }
}