I'm trying to generate a PDF document from an uploaded ".docx" file using JODConverter. The call to the method that generates the PDF is something like this :
File inputFile = new File("document.doc");
File outputFile = new File("document.pdf");
// connect to an OpenOffice.org instance running on port 8100
OpenOfficeConnection connection = new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(8100);
connection.connect();
// convert
DocumentConverter converter = new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);
converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile);
// close the connection
connection.disconnect();
I'm using apache commons FileUpload to handle uploading the docx file, from which I can get an InputStream object. I'm aware that Java.io.File
is just an abstract reference to a file in the system.
I want to avoid the disk write (saving the InputStream to disk) and the disk read (reading the saved file in JODConverter).
Is there any way I can get a File object refering to an input stream? just any other way to avoid disk IO will also do!
EDIT: I don't care if this will end up using a lot of system memory. The application is going to be hosted on a LAN with very little to zero number of parallel users.