This is not supported by apache poi until now. And since it uses the extended XML from w14 name space not even the underlying ooxml-schema classes supports this. Those schema classes were generated from the XML schemas of Office Open XML which was published in 2007. The extended XML from w14 name space is later and not part of Office Open XML.
So if one wants supporting that then one needs working on very low level XML level. But for such a simple thing as a checkbox this can be shown here as an example.
The following code contains a working draft of a class W14Checkbox. This provides a static method to check whether a given CTSdtRun contains a w14:checkbox. If that is the case, then a W14Checkbox object can be created from that CTSdtRun. This object then provides getChecked and setChecked methods.
Note that in setChecked not only the boolean value w14:checkbox/w14:checked needs to be set but also the corresponding text value of the CTSdtContentRun needs to be set. This can be either Unicode Character 'BALLOT BOX' (U+2610) for not checked or Unicode Character 'BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK' (U+2612) for checked.
Complete Example:
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.*;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.*;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
public class WordFillCheckBox {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("source.docx"));
for (XWPFParagraph paragraph : document.getParagraphs()) { //go through all paragraphs
for (CTSdtRun sdtRun : paragraph.getCTP().getSdtList()) {
if (W14Checkbox.isW14Checkbox(sdtRun)) {
W14Checkbox w14Checkbox = new W14Checkbox(sdtRun);
System.out.println(w14Checkbox.getChecked());
if (w14Checkbox.getChecked()) w14Checkbox.setChecked(false); else w14Checkbox.setChecked(true);
System.out.println(w14Checkbox.getChecked());
}
}
}
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("result.docx");
document.write(out);
out.close();
document.close();
}
static class W14Checkbox {
CTSdtRun sdtRun = null;
CTSdtContentRun sdtContentRun = null;
XmlObject w14CheckboxChecked = null;
W14Checkbox(CTSdtRun sdtRun) {
this.sdtRun = sdtRun;
this.sdtContentRun = sdtRun.getSdtContent();
String declareNameSpaces = "declare namespace w14='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml'";
XmlObject[] selectedObjects = sdtRun.getSdtPr().selectPath(declareNameSpaces + ".//w14:checkbox/w14:checked");
if (selectedObjects.length > 0) {
this.w14CheckboxChecked = selectedObjects[0];
}
}
CTSdtContentRun getContent() {
return this.sdtContentRun;
}
XmlObject getW14CheckboxChecked() {
return this.w14CheckboxChecked;
}
boolean getChecked() {
XmlCursor cursor = this.w14CheckboxChecked.newCursor();
String val = cursor.getAttributeText(new QName("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml", "val", "w14"));
return "1".equals(val) || "true".equals(val);
}
void setChecked(boolean checked) {
XmlCursor cursor = this.w14CheckboxChecked.newCursor();
String val = (checked)?"1":"0";
cursor.setAttributeText(new QName("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml", "val", "w14"), val);
cursor.dispose();
CTText t = this.sdtContentRun.getRArray(0).getTArray(0);
String content = (checked)?"\u2612":"\u2610";
t.setStringValue(content);
}
static boolean isW14Checkbox(CTSdtRun sdtRun) {
CTSdtPr sdtPr = sdtRun.getSdtPr();
String declareNameSpaces = "declare namespace w14='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml'";
XmlObject[] selectedObjects = sdtPr.selectPath(declareNameSpaces + ".//w14:checkbox");
if (selectedObjects.length > 0) return true;
return false;
}
}
}
Note: This is a working draft only and needs to be further developed to be ready for productive usage.
