Package com.lowagie.text.pdf.collection

Class PdfCollectionSort

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDictionary

com.lowagie.text.pdf.collection.PdfCollectionSort

public class PdfCollectionSort
extends PdfDictionary

Field Summary

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

CATALOG, FONT, hashMap, OUTLINES, PAGE, PAGES

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
PdfCollectionSort(String key)	Constructs a PDF Collection Sort Dictionary.
PdfCollectionSort(String[] keys)	Constructs a PDF Collection Sort Dictionary.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	setSortOrder(boolean ascending)	Defines the sort order of the field (ascending or descending).
void	setSortOrder(boolean[] ascending)	Defines the sort order of the field (ascending or descending).

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

contains, get, getAsArray, getAsBoolean, getAsDict, getAsIndirectObject, getAsName, getAsNumber, getAsStream, getAsString, getDirectObject, getKeys, isCatalog, isFont, isOutlineTree, isPage, isPages, merge, mergeDifferent, put, putAll, putEx, remove, size, toPdf, toString

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

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

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

PdfCollectionSort

public PdfCollectionSort(String key)

Constructs a PDF Collection Sort Dictionary.

Parameters:

key - the key of the field that will be used to sort entries

PdfCollectionSort

public PdfCollectionSort(String[] keys)

Constructs a PDF Collection Sort Dictionary.

Parameters:

keys - the keys of the fields that will be used to sort entries

Method Details

setSortOrder

public void setSortOrder(boolean ascending)

Defines the sort order of the field (ascending or descending).

Parameters:

ascending - true is the default, use false for descending order

setSortOrder

public void setSortOrder(boolean[] ascending)

Defines the sort order of the field (ascending or descending).

Parameters:

ascending - an array with every element corresponding with a name of a field.