Quick Start: Creating search rules using the web service API

The following C# code example creates two text patterns that the Output service searches for. The first text pattern is Mortgage. If found, the Output service uses the form design named Mortgage.xdp. The second text pattern is Automobile. If found, the Output service uses the form design named AutomobileLoan.xdp. If neither text pattern is located, the Output service uses the default form design named Loan.xdp.

/*

 * Ensure that you create a .NET client assembly that uses 

 * base64 encoding. This is required to populate a BLOB 

 * object with data or retrieve data from a BLOB object.

 * 

 * For information, see "Invoking LiveCycle ES using Base64 Encoding" 

 * in Programming with LiveCycle ES

 */

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.IO ; 

namespace CreateSearchRules

{

	class Class1

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			try

			{

				//Create an OutputServiceService object

				OutputServiceService outputClient = new OutputServiceService(); 

				outputClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("administrator", "password");

				//Create a BLOB object to store form data

				BLOB inData = new BLOB();

				//Reference XML data to merge into the PDF document

				string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.xml";

				FileStream fs = new FileStream(inputFileName, FileMode.Open);

				//Get the length of the file stream and create a byte array 

				int len = (int)fs.Length;

				byte[] byteArray = new byte[len];

				//Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream

				fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len);

				//Populate the BLOB object

				inData.binaryData = byteArray;

				//Define two sets of rules

				Rule mortageRule = new Rule();

				mortageRule.pattern = "Mortgage";

				mortageRule.form = "Mortgage.xdp";

				Rule automobileRule = new Rule();

				automobileRule.pattern = "Automobile";

				automobileRule.form = "AutomobileLoan.xdp";

				//Create an array of Object to hold the rules

				Object[]myRules = new Object[2]; 

				myRules[0] = new Object(); 

				myRules[1] = new Object(); 

				myRules[0]=mortageRule;

				myRules[1]=automobileRule;

				//Set PDF run-time options - including the rules

				PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec();

				pdfOptions.fileURI = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.pdf";

				pdfOptions.lookAhead = 300; 

				pdfOptions.rules = myRules; 

				//Set rendering run-time options

				RenderOptionsSpec renderOptions = new RenderOptionsSpec(); 

				renderOptions.cacheEnabled = true; 

				//Create empty objects to pass as arguments

				//to the generatePDFOutput method

				//These objects are populated by the method

				BLOB generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc = new BLOB(); 

				BLOB generatePDFOutputResultDoc = new BLOB();

				OutputResult outResult = new OutputResult();

				//Create a PDF Document using search rules

				outputClient.generatePDFOutput(TransformationFormat.PDF,

					"Loan.xdp",

					"C:\\Adobe",

					pdfOptions,

					renderOptions,

					inData,

					out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc,

					out generatePDFOutputResultDoc,

					out outResult);

				//Write the result data to Output.xml

				//Populate a byte array with BLOB data

				byte[] outByteArray=generatePDFOutputResultDoc.binaryData; 

				//Create a new file to store result data

				string FILE_NAME = "C:\\Adobe\\Output.xml"; 

				FileStream fs2 = new FileStream(FILE_NAME, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

				//Create a BinaryWriter object

				BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

				w.Write(outByteArray);

				w.Close();

				fs2.Close();

			}

			catch (Exception ee)

			{

				Console.WriteLine(ee.Message);  

			}

		}

	}

}

Note: Notice that you have to specify the out keyword in front of the additional web service arguments that are passed to the generatePDFOutput method.

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