com.itextpdf.text
Interface LargeElement

All Superinterfaces:

Element

All Known Implementing Classes:

Chapter, ChapterAutoNumber, PdfPTable, Section

public interface LargeElement
extends Element

Interface implemented by Element objects that can potentially consume a lot of memory. Objects implementing the LargeElement interface can be added to a Document more than once. If you have invoked setComplete(false), they will be added partially and the content that was added will be removed until you've invoked setComplete(true);

Since:

iText 2.0.8

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.itextpdf.text.Element

ALIGN_BASELINE, ALIGN_BOTTOM, ALIGN_CENTER, ALIGN_JUSTIFIED, ALIGN_JUSTIFIED_ALL, ALIGN_LEFT, ALIGN_MIDDLE, ALIGN_RIGHT, ALIGN_TOP, ALIGN_UNDEFINED, ANCHOR, ANNOTATION, AUTHOR, CCITT_BLACKIS1, CCITT_ENCODEDBYTEALIGN, CCITT_ENDOFBLOCK, CCITT_ENDOFLINE, CCITTG3_1D, CCITTG3_2D, CCITTG4, CHAPTER, CHUNK, CREATIONDATE, CREATOR, DIV, HEADER, IMGRAW, IMGTEMPLATE, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, KEYWORDS, LANGUAGE, LIST, LISTITEM, MARKED, PARAGRAPH, PHRASE, PRODUCER, PTABLE, RECTANGLE, SECTION, SUBJECT, TITLE, WRITABLE_DIRECT, YMARK

Method Summary

void	flushContent() Flushes the content that has been added.
boolean	isComplete() Indicates if the element is complete or not.
void	setComplete(boolean complete) If you invoke setComplete(false), you indicate that the content of the object isn't complete yet; it can be added to the document partially, but more will follow.

Methods inherited from interface com.itextpdf.text.Element

getChunks, isContent, isNestable, process, toString, type

Method Detail

setComplete

void setComplete(boolean complete)

If you invoke setComplete(false), you indicate that the content of the object isn't complete yet; it can be added to the document partially, but more will follow. If you invoke setComplete(true), you indicate that you won't add any more data to the object.

Parameters:

complete - false if you'll be adding more data after adding the object to the document.

Since:

iText 2.0.8

isComplete

boolean isComplete()

Indicates if the element is complete or not.

Returns:

indicates if the element is complete according to the user.

Since:

iText 2.0.8

flushContent

void flushContent()

Flushes the content that has been added.