[PDFBOX-5060] AcroForm PDTextField formatting lost when setting value

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.22
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.23, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Labels: AcroForm Appearance
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Laurent BERTEAU
• Created: 28/Dec/20 16:47
• Updated: 19/Mar/21 15:41
• Resolved: 14/Jan/21 07:55

Description

Formatted value of a form text field with assigned format action is lost in org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(String apValue) method.

Formatted value is processed with first method line :

value = getFormattedValue(apValue);

 

But then if the field is of PDTextFieldType, formatted value stored in this.value is replaced with :

value = apValue.replaceAll

 Shoud instead be :

value = value.replaceAll

 to preserve previously processed formatted value.