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/**
 * Copyright (c) 2001-2002. Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University. All Rights Reserved.
 * This software is published under the GPL GNU General Public License.
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 *
 * This software was written for the
 * Department of Family Medicine
 * McMaster University
 * Hamilton
 * Ontario, Canada
 */
package org.oscarehr.common.printing;

import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.oscarehr.util.MiscUtils;
import org.oscarehr.util.WKHtmlToPdfUtils;

import oscar.OscarProperties;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class HtmlToPdfServlet extends HttpServlet {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        String content = req.getParameter("content");

        // convert the content provide into PDF
        byte[] pdf = convertToPdf(req, content);
        // make sure we show footer information
        pdf = appendFooter(pdf);
        // and finally stream it to the user
        stream(resp, pdf, true);
    }

    public static byte[] stamp(byte[] content) throws Exception {
        PdfReader reader = null;
        ByteArrayOutputStream os = null;
        PdfStamper stamper = null;

        try {
            reader = new PdfReader(content);
            os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(content.length);
            stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, os);

            for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
                PdfContentByte over = stamper.getOverContent(i);
                BaseFont font = FontSettings.HELVETICA_6PT.createFont();

                over.setFontAndSize(font, 10);
                float center = reader.getPageSize(i).getWidth() / 2.0f;

                // TODO Consider refactoring this into is own class 
                printText(over, "Page " + i + " of " + reader.getNumberOfPages(), center, 35);
                printText(over, OscarProperties.getConfidentialityStatement(), center, 25);
            }

            // this is ugly, but there is no flush method for readers in itext....
            stamper.close();
            reader.close();
            os.flush();

            return os.toByteArray();
        } finally {
            if (os != null)
                IOUtils.closeQuietly(os);
        }
    }

    private static void printText(PdfContentByte over, String text, float x, float y) {
        over.beginText();
        over.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_CENTER, text, x, y, 0);
        over.endText();
    }

    /**
     * Streams the specified content as the response
     * 
     * @param resp
     *       Response to stream PDF bytes to
     * @param pdf
     *       PDF bytes to be streamed
     * @param setHeaders
     *       Flag indicating if the Content-Disposition header and content type should be set 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void stream(HttpServletResponse resp, byte[] pdf, boolean setHeaders) throws IOException {
        resp.setContentLength(pdf.length);
        if (setHeaders) {
            resp.setContentType("application/pdf");
            resp.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=printout.pdf");
        }

        OutputStream ros = null;
        try {
            ros = resp.getOutputStream();
            ros.write(pdf);
            ros.flush();
        } finally {
            if (ros != null) {
                IOUtils.closeQuietly(ros);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Appends footer to the provided PDF
     * 
     * @param pdf
     *       PDF to append footer to
     * @return
     *       Returns the newly generated PDF with the footer appended
     * @throws IOException
     *    IOException is thrown in case PDF can not be changed 
     */
    public static byte[] appendFooter(byte[] pdf) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(pdf.length); // assume new content is shorter
        try {
            appendFooter(pdf, baos);

            baos.flush();
            pdf = baos.toByteArray();
        } finally {
            if (baos != null)
                baos.close();
        }
        return pdf;
    }

    private static void appendFooter(byte[] pdf, ByteArrayOutputStream baos) {
        PdfReader reader = null;
        PdfWriter writer = null;
        Document document = null;

        try {
            // do initialization
            reader = new PdfReader(pdf);
            document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
            writer = PdfWriterFactory.newInstance(document, baos, FontSettings.HELVETICA_6PT);
            document.open();
            PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();

            // copy pages
            for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
                cb.addTemplate(writer.getImportedPage(reader, i), 0, 0);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Unable to append document footer", e);
        } finally {
            close(document);
            close(writer);
            close(reader);
        }
    }

    private static void close(PdfReader reader) {
        if (reader != null) {
            try {
                reader.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                MiscUtils.getLogger().error("Unable to close reader", e);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void close(PdfWriter writer) {
        if (writer != null) {
            try {
                writer.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                MiscUtils.getLogger().error("Unable to close writer", e);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void close(Document document) {
        if (document != null && document.isOpen()) {
            try {
                document.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                MiscUtils.getLogger().error("Unable to close document", e);
            }
        }
    }

    private byte[] convertToPdf(HttpServletRequest req, String content) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
        File contentFile = File.createTempFile("pdfservlet.", ".html");
        contentFile.deleteOnExit();

        OutputStream os = null;
        try {
            os = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(contentFile));
            IOUtils.write(content, os, req.getCharacterEncoding());
        } finally {
            if (os != null)
                IOUtils.closeQuietly(os);
        }

        byte[] pdf = WKHtmlToPdfUtils.convertToPdf(contentFile.getAbsolutePath());
        return pdf;
    }

}