Barcode Service With Adaptive Forms barcode-service-with-adaptive-forms
This article will demonstrate the use of Barcode Service to populate Adaptive Form. The use case is as follows:
- The user adds PDF with Barcode as Adaptive Form attachment
- The attachmentâs path is sent to the servlet
- The servlet decoded the barcode and returns the data in JSON format
- The Adaptive Form is then populated using the decoded data
The following code decodes the barcode and populates a JSON object with the decoded values. The servlet then returns the JSON object in its response to the calling application.
public JSONObject extractBarCode(Document pdfDocument) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
try {
org.w3c.dom.Document result = barcodeService.decode(pdfDocument, true, false, false, false, false, false,
false, false, CharSet.UTF_8);
List<org.w3c.dom.Document> listResult = barcodeService.extractToXML(result, Delimiter.Carriage_Return,
Delimiter.Tab, XMLFormat.XDP);
log.debug("the form1 lenght is " + listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("form1").getLength());
JSONObject decodedData = new JSONObject();
decodedData.put("name", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("Name").item(0).getTextContent());
decodedData.put("address", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("Address").item(0).getTextContent());
decodedData.put("city", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("City").item(0).getTextContent());
decodedData.put("state", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("State").item(0).getTextContent());
decodedData.put("zipCode", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("ZipCode").item(0).getTextContent());
decodedData.put("country", listResult.get(0).getElementsByTagName("Country").item(0).getTextContent());
log.debug("The JSON Object is " + decodedData.toString());
return decodedData;
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
The following is the servlet code. This servlet is called when the user adds an attachment to the Adaptive Form. The servlet returns the JSON object back to the calling application. The calling application then populates the Adaptive form with the values extracted from the JSON object.
@Component(service = Servlet.class, property = {
"sling.servlet.methods=get",
"sling.servlet.paths=/bin/decodebarcode"
})
public class DecodeBarCode extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {
@Reference
DocumentServices documentServices;
@Reference
GetResolver getResolver;
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DecodeBarCode.class);
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) {
ResourceResolver fd = getResolver.getFormsServiceResolver();
Node pdfDoc = fd.getResource(request.getParameter("pdfPath")).adaptTo(Node.class);
Document pdfDocument = null;
log.debug("The path of the pdf I got was " + request.getParameter("pdfPath"));
try {
pdfDocument = new Document(pdfDoc.getPath());
JSONObject decodedData = documentServices.extractBarCode(pdfDocument);
response.setContentType("application/json");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "nocache");
response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
PrintWriter out = null;
out = response.getWriter();
out.println(decodedData.toString());
} catch (RepositoryException | IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The following code is part of the client library that is referenced by Adaptive Form. When a user adds the attachment to the adaptive form, this code is triggered. The code makes a GET call to the servlet with the path of the attachment passed in the request parameter. The data received from the servlet call is then used to populate the adaptive form.
$(document).ready(function()
{
guideBridge.on("elementValueChanged",function(event,data){
if(data.target.name=="fileAttachment")
{
window.guideBridge.getFileAttachmentsInfo({
success:function(list)
{
console.log(list[0].name + " "+ list[0].path);
const getFormNames = '/bin/decodebarcode?pdfPath='+list[0].path;
$.getJSON(getFormNames, function (data) {
console.log(data);
var nameField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].Name[0]");
nameField.value = data.name;
var addressField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].Address[0]");
addressField.value = data.address;
var cityField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].City[0]");
cityField.value = data.city;
var stateField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].State[0]");
stateField.value = data.state;
var zipField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].Zip[0]");
zipField.value = data.zipCode;
var countryField = window.guideBridge.resolveNode("guide[0].guide1[0].guideRootPanel[0].Country[0]");
countryField.value = data.country;
});
}
});
}
});
});
Line 12 - Custom code to get service resolver. This bundle is included as part of this articles assets.
Line 23 - Call the DocumentServices extractBarCode method to get the JSON object populated with decoded data
To get this running on your system, please follow the following steps:
- Download BarcodeService.zip and import into AEM using the package manager
- Download and install the Custom DocumentServices Bundle
- Download and install the DevelopingWithServiceUser Bundle
- Download the sample PDF Form
- Point your browser to the sample adaptive form
- Upload the sample PDF provided
- You should see the forms populated with the data