[PDFBOX-3696] Undeprecate CCITTFactory.createFromRandomAccess()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.5, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Rendering
• Labels: newbie
• Environment: Java 1.6
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Thad Humphries
• Created: 19/Feb/17 10:35
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:12
• Resolved: 09/Mar/17 21:49

Description

I am processing images, mostly TIFF Group 4, from a repository, and outputting them as PDF. The images always come to me in a byte array, never as a file. In fact, I've no option to get it as a file. The repository may or may not be local--it is accessed through its own API.

I would like to convert this buffer directly to a PDImageXObject, but both the CCITTFactory.createFromRandomAccess() are deprecated, forcing me to first create a BufferedImage. Looking at the source for the CCITTFactory class, they do essentially the same thing as the createFromFile() methods, which first create a RandomAccessFile before calling createFromRandomAccessImpl().

Can the CCITTFactory.createFromRandomAccess() methods be undeprecated, or is there a problem with RandomAccessBuffer?