Class NameTree

A NameTree is a common data structure in PDF. See section 3.8.5 'Name Trees' in PDF Reference Manual for more details.

A name tree serves a similar purpose to a dictionary - associating keys and values - but by different means. NameTrees allow efficient storage of very large association collections (string/Obj* maps). A NameTree can have many more entries than a SDF/Cos dictionary can.

NameTree-s use SDF/Cos-style strings (not null-terminated C strings), which may use Unicode encoding etc.

Inheritance

object

NameTree

Implements

IDisposable

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Namespace: pdftron.SDF

Assembly: PDFTronDotNet.dll

Syntax

public class NameTree : IDisposable

Constructors

NameTree(Obj)

Create a high level NameTree wrapper around an existing SDF/Cos NameTree. This does not copy the object.

Declaration

public NameTree(Obj name_tree)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Obj	name_tree	SDF/Cos root of the NameTree object.

Methods

Create(SDFDoc, string)

Retrieves the NameTree inside the '/Root/Names' dictionary with the specified key name, or creates it if it does not exist.

Declaration

public static NameTree Create(SDFDoc doc, string name)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SDFDoc	doc	The document in which the name tree is created.
string	name	The name of the NameTree to create.

Returns

Type	Description
NameTree	The newly created NameTree for the doc or an exising tree with the same key name.

Remarks

although it is possible to create a name tree anywhere in the document the convention is that all trees are located under '/Root/Names' dictionary.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

Dispose()

Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources.

Declaration

public void Dispose()

Dispose(bool)

Declaration

protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
bool	disposing

Erase(byte[])

Removes the specified object from the tree. Does nothing if no object with that name exists.

Declaration

public void Erase(byte[] key)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
byte[]	key	data buffer representing the key of the entry to be removed.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

Erase(NameTreeIterator)

Removes the NameTree entry pointed by the iterator.

Declaration

public void Erase(NameTreeIterator pos)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameTreeIterator	pos	the pos

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

~NameTree()

Releases all resources used by the NameTree

Declaration

protected ~NameTree()

Find(SDFDoc, string)

Retrieves a name tree, with the given key name, from the '/Root/Names' dictionary of the doc.

Declaration

public static NameTree Find(SDFDoc doc, string name)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SDFDoc	doc	The document in which to search for the name.
string	name	The name of the name tree to find.

Returns

Type	Description
NameTree	The requested NameTree. If the requested NameTree exists NameTree.IsValid() will return true, and false otherwise.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

GetIterator()

Gets the iterator.

Declaration

public NameTreeIterator GetIterator()

Returns

Type	Description
NameTreeIterator	an iterator to the first key/value pair (i.e. NNTreeData) in the document. You can use the increment operator on the returned iterator to traverese all entries stored under the NameTree.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

GetIterator(byte[])

Search for the specified key in the NameTree.

Declaration

public NameTreeIterator GetIterator(byte[] key)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
byte[]	key	data buffer representing the key to be found.

Returns

Type	Description
NameTreeIterator	If the key is present the function returns a NameTreeIterator the points to the given Key/Value pair. If the key is not found the function returns End() (a non-valid) iterator.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

GetSDFObj()

Gets the SDFObj.

Declaration

public Obj GetSDFObj()

Returns

Type	Description
Obj	the object to the underlying SDF/Cos object. If the NameTree.IsValid() returns false the SDF/Cos object is NULL.

GetValue(byte[])

Gets the value.

Declaration

public Obj GetValue(byte[] key)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
byte[]	key	the key

Returns

Type	Description
Obj	the value

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

IsValid()

Checks if is valid.

Declaration

public bool IsValid()

Returns

Type	Description
bool	whether this is a valid (non-null) NameTree. If the function returns false the underlying SDF/Cos object is null and the NameTree object should be treated as null as well.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

Put(byte[], Obj)

Puts a new entry in the name tree. If an entry with this key is already in the tree, it is replaced.

Declaration

public void Put(byte[] key, Obj value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
byte[]	key	data buffer representing the key of the new entry.
Obj	value	the value

Exceptions

Type	Condition
PDFNetException	PDFNetException the PDFNet exception

Set(NameTree)

Sets value to the specified NameTree

Declaration

public void Set(NameTree p)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameTree	p	NameTree object to set the value to

op_Assign(NameTree)

Assignment operator

Declaration

public NameTree op_Assign(NameTree rhs)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameTree	rhs	NameTree object at the right of the operator

Returns

Type	Description
NameTree	NameTree object equal to the specified object

Implements

IDisposable