Trying to solve my issue on how to replace placeholders inside a MS Word in Java, I choosed to replace texts and avoid the use of document properties. BUT!!!I learned that you can’t use prefix/suffix like in template engine (e.g. ${myproperty}). Indeed, in order to replace texts using Apache POI in Java, you need to cycle on objects called XWPFRun obtained by XWPFParagraph(s) found inside header/footers/document/tables/etc… The problem is that if your placeholder is named ${myproperty} you have 3 XWPFRun:
- ${
- myproperty
- }
and replacing theme is pretty “hard”!
Actually, the solution is to avoid any symbol in the placeholders (e.g. myproperty instead of ${myproperty}). In order to avoid replacements on texts that do not need to change, I choosed to use a textual prefix (e.g. vodafonecanvass.myproperty) in my plugin.
Stay tuned for the next push!