[Springframework-developer] patch: cannot populate PDF metadata with AbstractPdfView

[Moses H. <mmh...@no...>]

Hi,

Right now there's no way to populate the meta information (e.g. title, 
creator, author, etc.) on a PDF document generated by 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.document.AbstractPdfView. You 
can't populate it in getDocument(), because the PdfWriter hasn't been 
associated with the Document yet. And you can't populate it in 
buildPdfDocument(), because document.open() has already been called.

Granted, not many are so anal as to actually want to do this, but for 
those that are, I submit the attached patch. I couldn't think of any 
way I could write a sensible unit test for this issue, so I didn't 
write one.

thanks,

Moses