I am currently trying to convert an advanced word document (.DOCX) to PDF using java.
For the generation of word documents I am using apache poi@3.15. They have a PDF converter build in, although it kind of ruins the document format.
I eventually ended up using a cloud based API (paid), which felt like a bummer. Today though, I found the document4j project and it got me very excited.
I have purchased a VPS which runs windows for the sole purpose of converting .docx files to .pdf files and it is reachable. The document4j/local-demo is working fine as well and is capable of converting my .docx files to .pdf very nicely.
There seems to be very limited documentation online though, except for the Javadocs, which don't help me out anymore than the intellisense in my editor does.
Can anybody help me out with this?
Stacktrace
2018-11-28 00:37:21.577 INFO 701 --- [o-8081-exec-477] com.documents4j.job.RemoteConverter : The documents4j remote converter has started successfully (URI: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1337)
Exception in thread "pool-3-thread-1" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.glassfish.jersey.internal.util.PropertiesHelper.getValue(Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/Object;
at org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheConnector.getSslContext(ApacheConnector.java:324)
at org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheConnector.<init>(ApacheConnector.java:240)
at org.glassfish.jersey.apache.connector.ApacheConnectorProvider.getConnector(ApacheConnectorProvider.java:110)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig$State.initRuntime(ClientConfig.java:425)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig$State.access$000(ClientConfig.java:90)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig$State$3.get(ClientConfig.java:122)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig$State$3.get(ClientConfig.java:119)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.util.collection.Values$LazyValueImpl.get(Values.java:340)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientConfig.getRuntime(ClientConfig.java:733)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRequest.getConfiguration(ClientRequest.java:286)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation.validateHttpMethodAndEntity(JerseyInvocation.java:135)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation.<init>(JerseyInvocation.java:105)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation.<init>(JerseyInvocation.java:101)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation.<init>(JerseyInvocation.java:92)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$AsyncInvoker.method(JerseyInvocation.java:642)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$AsyncInvoker.post(JerseyInvocation.java:520)
at com.documents4j.job.RemoteFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.startConversion(RemoteFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.java:61)
at com.documents4j.job.RemoteFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.startConversion(RemoteFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.java:15)
at com.documents4j.job.AbstractFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.run(AbstractFutureWrappingPriorityFuture.java:70)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
pom.xml
....
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.documents4j/documents4j-client -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.documents4j</groupId>
<artifactId>documents4j-client</artifactId>
<version>1.0.3</version>
</dependency>
....
Relevant code:
IConverter converter = RemoteConverter.builder()
.baseFolder(null)
.workerPool(20, 25, 2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.requestTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.baseUri("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1337")
.build();
File pdfFile = File.createTempFile(fileName, ".pdf");
pdfFile.deleteOnExit();
converter.convert(data).as(DocumentType.DOCX).to(pdfFile).as(DocumentType.PDF).execute();
Edit: using java -jar ./documents4j-client-standalone-1.0.3-shaded.jar http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1337 works, though unfortunately not in the java code itself.
