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

static String	FALSE A possible value of PdfBoolean
static PdfBoolean	PDFFALSE
static PdfBoolean	PDFTRUE
static String	TRUE A possible value of PdfBoolean
private boolean	value the boolean value of this object

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

PdfBoolean(boolean value)
Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.

PdfBoolean(String value)
Constructs a PdfBoolean-object.

Method Summary

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 Detail

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

value

private boolean value

the boolean value of this object

Constructor Detail

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 Detail

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