Applying Reader Extensions

Reader Extensions allows you to manipulate usage rights on PDF documents. Usage rights pertain to functionality that is available in Acrobat but not in Adobe Reader. Functionality controlled by Reader Extensions includes the ability to add comments to a document, fill forms, and save the document. PDF documents that have usage rights added are called rights-enabled documents. A user who opens a rights-enabled PDF document in Adobe Reader can perform the operations that are enabled for that document.

To accomplish this use case we need to do the following:

Create custom OSGi service

Create a custom OSGi service that will apply usage rights to the documents. The code to accomplish this is listed below

import com.adobe.aemfd.docmanager.Document;
import com.adobe.fd.docassurance.client.api.DocAssuranceService;
import com.adobe.fd.docassurance.client.api.ReaderExtensionOptions;
import com.adobe.fd.readerextensions.client.ReaderExtensionsOptionSpec;
import com.adobe.fd.readerextensions.client.UsageRights;
import com.adobe.fd.signatures.pdf.inputs.UnlockOptions;
import com.aemforms.ares.core.ReaderExtendPDF;
import com.mergeandfuse.getserviceuserresolver.GetResolver;
@Component(service = ApplyUsageRights.class)
public class ApplyUsageRights implements ReaderExtendPDF {
        @Reference
        DocAssuranceService docAssuranceService;
        @Reference
        GetResolver getResolver;
        Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ApplyUsageRights.class);
        @Override
        public Document applyUsageRights(Document pdfDocument, UsageRights usageRights) {

                ReaderExtensionsOptionSpec reOptionsSpec = new ReaderExtensionsOptionSpec(usageRights, "Sample ARES");
                UnlockOptions unlockOptions = null;
                ReaderExtensionOptions reOptions = ReaderExtensionOptions.getInstance();
                reOptions.setCredentialAlias("ares");

                reOptions.setResourceResolver(getResolver.getFormsServiceResolver());

                reOptions.setReOptions(reOptionsSpec);
                System.out.println("Applying Usage Rights");

                try {
                        Document readerExtended = docAssuranceService.secureDocument(pdfDocument, null, null, reOptions,
                                unlockOptions);
                        reOptions.getResourceResolver().close();
                        return readerExtended;
                } catch (Exception e) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
                return null;
        }

}

Create servlet to stream the reader extended PDF

The next step is to create a servlet with a POST method to return the reader extended PDF to the user. In this case, the user is asked to save the PDF to their file system. This is because the PDF is rendered as dynamic PDF and the pdf viewers that come with the browsers do not handle dynamic pdf’s.

Following is the code for the servlet. The servlet is invoked from customsubmit action of Adaptive Form.
Servlet creates UsageRights object and sets it properties based on the values entered by the user in the Adaptive Form. The servlet then calls the applyUsageRights method of the service created for this purpose.

package com.aemforms.ares.core.servlets;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.sling.api.request.RequestParameter;
import org.apache.sling.api.request.RequestParameterMap;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Reference;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import com.adobe.aemfd.docmanager.Document;
import com.adobe.fd.readerextensions.client.UsageRights;
import com.aemforms.ares.core.impl.ApplyUsageRights;

@Component(service = Servlet.class, property = {

        "sling.servlet.methods=post",

        "sling.servlet.paths=/bin/applyrights"

})

public class GetReaderExtendedPDF extends SlingAllMethodsServlet {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -883724052368090823 L;
        @Reference
        ApplyUsageRights applyRights;
        Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GetReaderExtendedPDF.class);

        public org.w3c.dom.Document w3cDocumentFromStrng(String xmlString) {
                try {
                        System.out.println("the submitted data is " + xmlString);
                        DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
                        InputSource is = new InputSource();
                        is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlString));

                        return db.parse(is);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                        logger.debug(e.getMessage());
                }
                return null;
        }
        @Override
        protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) {
                doPost(request, response);
        }
        @Override
        protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) {
                System.out.println("In my do POST");
                UsageRights usageRights = new UsageRights();
                String submittedData = request.getParameter("jcr:data");
                org.w3c.dom.Document submittedXml = w3cDocumentFromStrng(submittedData);
                usageRights.setEnabledDynamicFormFields(true);
                usageRights.setEnabledDynamicFormPages(true);
                usageRights.setEnabledFormDataImportExport(true);
                usageRights.setEnabledFormFillIn(Boolean.valueOf(submittedXml.getElementsByTagName("formfill").item(0).getTextContent()));
                usageRights.setEnabledComments(Boolean.valueOf(submittedXml.getElementsByTagName("comments").item(0).getTextContent()));
                usageRights.setEnabledEmbeddedFiles(Boolean.valueOf(submittedXml.getElementsByTagName("attachments").item(0).getTextContent()));
                usageRights.setEnabledDigitalSignatures(Boolean.valueOf(submittedXml.getElementsByTagName("digitalsignatures").item(0).getTextContent()));
                usageRights.setEnabledBarcodeDecoding(Boolean.valueOf(submittedXml.getElementsByTagName("barcode").item(0).getTextContent()));

                RequestParameterMap requestParameterMap = request.getRequestParameterMap();

                for (Map.Entry < String, RequestParameter[] > pairs: requestParameterMap.entrySet()) {
                        final org.apache.sling.api.request.RequestParameter[] pArr = pairs.getValue();
                        final org.apache.sling.api.request.RequestParameter param = pArr[0];

                        if (!param.isFormField()) {
                                try {
                                        System.out.println("Got form attachment!!!!" + param.getFileName());
                                        logger.debug("Got attachment!!!!" + param.getFileName());
                                        InputStream is = param.getInputStream();
                                        Document documentToReaderExtend = new Document(is);
                                        documentToReaderExtend = applyRights.applyUsageRights(documentToReaderExtend, usageRights);
                                        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                                                documentToReaderExtend.copyToFile(new File(param.getFileName().split("/")[1]));
                                        }

                                        InputStream fileInputStream = documentToReaderExtend.getInputStream();

                                        response.setContentType("application/pdf");
                                        response.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + param.getFileName().split("/")[1]);
                                        response.setContentLength((int) fileInputStream.available());
                                        OutputStream responseOutputStream = response.getOutputStream();
                                        documentToReaderExtend.close();
                                        int bytes;
                                        while ((bytes = fileInputStream.read()) != -1) {
                                                responseOutputStream.write(bytes);
                                        }
                                        responseOutputStream.flush();
                                        responseOutputStream.close();

                                } catch (IOException e) {
                                        logger.debug("Exception in streaming pdf back to client  " + e.getMessage());
                                }
                        }

                }

        }

}

To test this on your local server, please follow the following steps:

  1. Download and Install the DevelopingWithServiceUser Bundle
  2. Download and install the ares.ares.core-ares Bundle. This has the custom service and the servlet to apply usage rights and stream the pdf back
  3. Import the client libs and custom submit
  4. Import the Adaptive Form
  5. Add Reader Extensions certificate to “fd-service” user. Make sure the alias is “ares”.
  6. Preview Adaptive Form
  7. Select the appropriate rights and upload PDF file
  8. Click Submit to get Reader Extended PDF
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