itextpdf.jar is a component in iText 5 Java library to provide core functionalities. iText Java library allows you to generate and manage PDF documents.

The Source Code files are provided at iText GitHub site.

You can compile it to generate your JAR file, using pom.xml as the build configuration file.

The source code of itextpdf-5.5.14.jar is provided below:

⏎ com/itextpdf/xmp/impl/XMPSerializerHelper.java

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package com.itextpdf.xmp.impl;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import com.itextpdf.xmp.XMPException;
import com.itextpdf.xmp.options.SerializeOptions;


/**
 * Serializes the <code>XMPMeta</code>-object to an <code>OutputStream</code> according to the
 * <code>SerializeOptions</code>. 
 * 
 * @since   11.07.2006
 */
public class XMPSerializerHelper
{
	/**
	 * Static method to serialize the metadata object. For each serialisation, a new XMPSerializer
	 * instance is created, either XMPSerializerRDF or XMPSerializerPlain so thats its possible to 
	 * serialialize the same XMPMeta objects in two threads.
	 * 
	 * @param xmp a metadata implementation object
	 * @param out the output stream to serialize to
	 * @param options serialization options, can be <code>null</code> for default.
	 * @throws XMPException
	 */
	public static void serialize(XMPMetaImpl xmp, OutputStream out, 
		SerializeOptions options)
		throws XMPException
	{
		options = options != null ? options : new SerializeOptions();		
		
		// sort the internal data model on demand
		if (options.getSort())
		{
			xmp.sort();
		}
		new XMPSerializerRDF().serialize(xmp, out, options);
	}		
	

	/**
	 * Serializes an <code>XMPMeta</code>-object as RDF into a string.
	 * <em>Note:</em> Encoding is forced to UTF-16 when serializing to a
	 * string to ensure the correctness of &quot;exact packet size&quot;.
	 * 
	 * @param xmp a metadata implementation object
	 * @param options Options to control the serialization (see
	 *            {@link SerializeOptions}).
	 * @return Returns a string containing the serialized RDF.
	 * @throws XMPException on serializsation errors.
	 */
	public static String serializeToString(XMPMetaImpl xmp, SerializeOptions options)
		throws XMPException
	{
		// forces the encoding to be UTF-16 to get the correct string length
		options = options != null ? options : new SerializeOptions();		
		options.setEncodeUTF16BE(true);

		ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(2048);
		serialize(xmp, out, options);

		try
		{
			return out.toString(options.getEncoding());
		}
		catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
		{
			// cannot happen as UTF-8/16LE/BE is required to be implemented in
			// Java
			return out.toString();
		}
	}
	
	
	/**
	 * Serializes an <code>XMPMeta</code>-object as RDF into a byte buffer.
	 * 
	 * @param xmp a metadata implementation object
	 * @param options Options to control the serialization (see {@link SerializeOptions}).
	 * @return Returns a byte buffer containing the serialized RDF.
	 * @throws XMPException on serializsation errors.
	 */
	public static byte[] serializeToBuffer(XMPMetaImpl xmp, SerializeOptions options)
			throws XMPException
	{
		ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(2048);
		serialize(xmp, out, options);
		return out.toByteArray();
	}
}

⏎ com/itextpdf/xmp/impl/XMPSerializerHelper.java

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Release date: 2009-10-09
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