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| -rw-r--r-- | include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh index cb4c5be6..efcd653a 100644 --- a/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh +++ b/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh @@ -379,6 +379,20 @@ class QPDFObjectHandle static QPDFObjectHandle parse(std::string const& object_str, std::string const& object_description = ""); + // Construct an object of any type from a string representation of + // the object. Indirect object syntax (obj gen R) is allowed and + // will create indirect references within the passed-in context. + // If object_description is provided, it will appear in the + // message of any QPDFExc exception thrown for invalid syntax. + // Note that you can't parse an indirect object reference all by + // itself as parse will stop at the end of the first complete + // object, which will just be the first number and will report + // that there is trailing data at the end of the string. + QPDF_DLL + static QPDFObjectHandle parse(QPDF* context, + std::string const& object_str, + std::string const& object_description = ""); + // Construct an object as above by reading from the given // InputSource at its current position and using the tokenizer you // supply. Indirect objects and encrypted strings are permitted. |