Loading JavaScript from a URL in Java with HttpClient
In this guide, we'll show you how to load JavaScript from a URL when converting HTML to PDF using Java and the HttpClient library.
When converting HTML to PDF, you might want to reference external JavaScript files to include dynamic functionality.
import java.net.http.*;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse.BodyHandlers;
import java.time.Duration;
// You can get an API key at https://pdfshift.io
String apiKey = "sk_xxxxxxxxxxxx";
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder()
.connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
.build();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf"))
.header("X-API-Key", apiKey)
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.POST(BodyPublishers.ofString("{\n" +
" \"source\": \"https://www.example.com\",\n" +
" \"javascript\": \"https://example.com/script.js\"\n" +
"}"))
.build();
HttpResponse<byte[]> response = client.send(request, BodyHandlers.ofByteArray());
// Handle errors:
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException("Request failed with status code " + response.statusCode());
}
java.nio.file.Files.write(java.nio.file.Paths.get("result.pdf"), response.body());
System.out.println("The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf");
This allows you to include external JavaScript libraries in your PDFs.
For further details on the javascript property and its usage, please refer to our dedicated documentation.
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