We are excitedly announcing a new feature in the monthly release of GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 18.9. Using the latest version, you can now change the target file format of an assembled document using file extension or explicit specification. You can change the target file format when assembling Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Email and Text file formats. We recommend you to install the latest version of the API for a better user experience.
Features Introduced
Since version 18.9, you can change the format of the assembled document either by specification of the file extension or using LoadSaveOptions as shown in the following code snippets.
Changing the target file format using the file extension
DataSourceInfo dataSourceInfo = new DataSourceInfo(...);
DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.assembleDocument("template.docx", "result.pdf", dataSourceInfo);
Changing target file format using explicit specification
InputStream sourceStream = ...;
OutputStream targetStream = ...;
DataSourceInfo dataSourceInfo = new DataSourceInfo(...);
DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.assembleDocument(sourceStream, targetStream, new LoadSaveOptions(FileFormat.PDF), dataSourceInfo);
For more details on this feature, please visit this documentation article.
At the moment, GroupDocs.Assembly API provides the ability to change target file format when assembling the following file formats:
- Word Processing documents
- Spreadsheet documents
- Presentation documents
- Email documents
- Text documents
Supported output file formats depending on input file formats can be found at this page.
API Changes
Newly Added Types
Following types are added in the latest version.
public class DataSourceInfo
public enum FileFormat
public class LoadSaveOptions
Newly Added Members of DocumentAssembler
Following members of DocumentAssembler are added in the latest version.
public void assembleDocument(String sourcePath, String targetPath, DataSourceInfo... dataSourceInfos) throws Exception
public void assembleDocument(String sourcePath, String targetPath, LoadSaveOptions loadSaveOptions, DataSourceInfo... dataSourceInfos) throws Exception
public void assembleDocument(InputStream sourceStream, OutputStream targetStream, DataSourceInfo... dataSourceInfos) throws Exception
public void assembleDocument(InputStream sourceStream, OutputStream targetStream, LoadSaveOptions loadSaveOptions, DataSourceInfo... dataSourceInfos) throws Exception
Removed Members of DocumentAssembler
Following members of DocumentAssembler are removed in the latest version.
public void assembleDocument(String sourcePath, String targetPath, Object dataSource)
public void assembleDocument(String sourcePath, String targetPath, Object dataSource, String dataSourceName)
public void assembleDocument(String sourcePath, String targetPath, Object[] dataSources, String[] dataSourceNames)
public void assembleDocument(InputStream sourceStream, OutputStream targetStream, Object dataSource)
public void assembleDocument(InputStream sourceStream, OutputStream targetStream, Object dataSource, String dataSourceName)
public void assembleDocument(InputStream sourceStream, OutputStream targetStream, Object[] dataSources, String[] dataSourceNames)
Breaking Change
Removed members of DocumentAssembler were replaced with new ones. Removed members were not marked as obsolete (deprecated) before removal as usual, because this would complicate migration to new members of DocumentAssembler in Java. Thus, we have introduced a breaking change and customers need to migrate their code from removed members of DocumentAssembler to newly added ones when upgrading to the new version of GroupDocs.Assembly.
For more details, please visit this documentation article.
Since version 18.9, the Metered licensing security has been improved. Metered licensing is now applicable only in Java runtime version 8u101 or above. Please use other types of licensing if you are using v18.9 or greater in Java 7.
Available Channels and Resources
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