Package com.lowagie.text.pdf

Class PdfBoolean

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfBoolean

public class PdfBoolean
extends PdfObject

PdfBoolean is the boolean object represented by the keywords true or false.

This object is described in the 'Portable Document Format Reference Manual version 1.7' section 3.2.1 (page 52).

See Also:

• PdfObject
• BadPdfFormatException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	FALSE	A possible value of PdfBoolean
static final PdfBoolean	PDFFALSE
static final PdfBoolean	PDFTRUE
static final String	TRUE	A possible value of PdfBoolean

Fields inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

ARRAY, BOOLEAN, bytes, DICTIONARY, INDIRECT, indRef, NAME, NOTHING, NULL, NUMBER, STREAM, STRING, TEXT_PDFDOCENCODING, TEXT_UNICODE, type

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PdfBoolean(boolean value)	Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.
PdfBoolean(String value)	Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	booleanValue()	Returns the primitive value of the PdfBoolean-object.
String	toString()	Returns the String-representation of this PdfObject.

Methods inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

canBeInObjStm, getBytes, getIndRef, isArray, isBoolean, isDictionary, isIndirect, isName, isNull, isNumber, isStream, isString, length, setContent, setIndRef, toPdf, type

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

PDFTRUE

public static final PdfBoolean PDFTRUE

PDFFALSE

public static final PdfBoolean PDFFALSE

TRUE

public static final String TRUE

A possible value of PdfBoolean

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

FALSE

public static final String FALSE

A possible value of PdfBoolean

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Constructor Details

PdfBoolean

public PdfBoolean(boolean value)

Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.

Parameters:

value - the value of the new PdfObject

PdfBoolean

public PdfBoolean(String value)
           throws BadPdfFormatException

Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.

Parameters:

value - the value of the new PdfObject, represented as a String

Throws:

BadPdfFormatException - thrown if the value isn't 'true' or 'false'

Method Details

booleanValue

public boolean booleanValue()

Returns the primitive value of the PdfBoolean-object.

Returns:

the actual value of the object.

toString

public String toString()

Description copied from class: PdfObject

Returns the String-representation of this PdfObject.

Overrides:

toString in class PdfObject

Returns:

a String