Quick Start (Base64): Importing XMP metadata using the web service API

The following code example imports XMP metadata and saves the new PDF file to disk. (See Importing Metadata into PDF Documents.)

/* 
    * Ensure that you create a .NET client assembly that uses  
    * base64 encoding. This is required to populate a BLOB  
    * object with data or retrieve data from a BLOB object. 
    *  
    * For information, see "Creating a .NET client assembly" in Programming 
    * with LiveCycle ES 
    */ 
using System; 
using System.Collections; 
using System.ComponentModel; 
using System.Data; 
using System.IO;  
 
namespace XMPUtilityWSApp 
{ 
       class ImportMetadataTest 
    { 
        [STAThread] 
        static void Main(string[] args) 
        { 
               try 
               { 
                   // Create a XMPUtilityServiceService object 
                   XMPUtilityServiceService svc = new XMPUtilityServiceService(); 
 
                   // Provide authentication credentials to the service 
                   svc.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential( 
                       "administrator",  
                       "password" 
                   ); 
 
                   // Create a BLOB that represents the input PDF file 
                   BLOB inDoc = new BLOB(); 
 
                   // Specify a PDF document whose metadata is to be exported 
                   string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\Loan.pdf"; 
                   FileStream fs = new FileStream(inputFileName, FileMode.Open); 
 
                   // Get the length of the file stream and create a byte array  
                   int len = (int)fs.Length; 
                   byte[] byteArray = new byte[len]; 
 
                   // Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream 
                   fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len); 
 
                   // Populate the BLOB object 
                   inDoc.binaryData = byteArray; 
 
                   // Specify an XML file containing the XMP metadata to be imported 
                   BLOB xmpDoc = new BLOB(); 
                   string xmpFileName = "C:\\Adobe\FormMetadata.xml"; 
                   FileStream xmpfs = new FileStream(xmpFileName, FileMode.Open); 
                   int xmplen = (int)xmpfs.Length; 
                   byte[] xmpByteArray = new byte[xmplen]; 
                   xmpfs.Read(xmpByteArray, 0, xmplen); 
                   xmpDoc.binaryData = xmpByteArray; 
 
                // Import the XMP metadata from an XMP file 
                BLOB outDoc = svc.importXMP(inDoc, xmpDoc); 
 
                // Inspect the XMP metadata object (retrieve the document's author in this case) 
                XMPUtilityMetadata myXmp = svc.exportMetadata(outDoc); 
                string name = myXmp.author; 
                Console.WriteLine("The document's author is " + name); 
 
                   // Save the PDF document containing the new metadata 
                   byte[] outByteArray = outDoc.binaryData; 
                   string FILE_NAME = "C:\\Adobe\LoanMetadata.pdf"; 
                   FileStream fs2 = new FileStream(FILE_NAME, FileMode.OpenOrCreate); 
                   BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2); 
                   w.Write(outByteArray); 
                   w.Close(); 
                   fs2.Close(); 
 
                   Console.WriteLine("The XMP metadata was imported into the PDF document."); 
               } 
 
               catch (Exception ee) 
               { 
                   Console.WriteLine("An unexpected exception was encountered: " + ee.Message + "\n" + ee.StackTrace); 
               } 
           } 
 
 
    } 
}