[PDFBOX-5270] Consider BaseParser.seqSource a protected member

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.24
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Alistair Oldfield
• Created: 28/Aug/21 13:38
• Updated: 18/Aug/23 05:46
• Resolved: 04/Sep/21 12:05

Description

Please consider making
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.seqSource a protected member.
i.e.

 

protected final SequentialSource seqSource;
 

this will allow extending the PDFStreamParser class to make use of the seqSource.

 

In my particular case (only to show one of many possible use-cases), I do not want to skip comments in the PDF stream:

%comment in stream which may be useful to read

 

One cannot usefully override 

 

protected void skipSpaces() throws IOException
 

 

without access to this member.

 

As the skipSpaces is already protected, it implies that one may find it useful to override it anyway (probably other reasons too, but is not really meaningful without access to seqSource).