Migration Notes

Why To Migrate?

Here are the key reasons to use the new updated API provided by GroupDocs.Comparison for Java since version 20.4:

• Comparer class introduced as a single entry point to compare documents of any supported file format with various options and ability to accept/reject found differences in resultant document. 
• Document compare options for all document types. Instead of using document related options now options are related to compare type only.
• The overall document related classes were unified to common.
• Product architecture was redesigned from scratch in order to simplify passing options and classes to manipulate comparison.
• Document information and preview generation procedures were simplified.

How To Migrate? 

Here is a brief comparison of how to compare document with old and new API.

Old coding style

Comparer comparer = new Comparer();
ComparisonSettings settings = new ComparisonSettings();
settings.setStyleChangeDetection(true);
ICompareResult result = comparer.compare("source.docx", "target.docx", settings);
result.saveDocument("result.docx");

New coding style

Comparer comparer = new Comparer("source.docx");
try {
    comparer.add("target.docx");
    CompareOptions compareOptions = new CompareOptions();
    compareOptions.setDetectStyleChanges(true);
    comparer.compare("result.docx", compareOptions);
} finally {
    comparer.dispose();
}