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Document can contain some metadata information, such as author, organization, etc. GroupDocs.Comparison allows you to select metadata source when saving output document.
Possible metadata sources are as follows:
- Source document metadata
- Target document metadata
- User-defined metadata
To set output document metadata, follow these steps:
- Instantiate the Comparer object. Specify the source document path or stream.
- Call the add() method. Specify the target document path or stream.
- Instantiate the SaveOptions object. Call the setCloneMetadataType() method to set the appropriate MetadataType variant.
- Call the compare() method. Specify the SaveOptions object as a parameter.
The following code snippets show how to set output document metadata:
import com.groupdocs.comparison.Comparer;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.enums.MetadataType;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.save.SaveOptions;
import java.nio.file.Path;
// ...
try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer("source.docx")) {
comparer.add("target.docx");
final SaveOptions saveOptions = new SaveOptions();
saveOptions.setCloneMetadataType(MetadataType.SOURCE);
final Path resultPath = comparer.compare("result.docx", saveOptions);
}
import com.groupdocs.comparison.Comparer;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.enums.MetadataType;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.save.SaveOptions;
import java.nio.file.Path;
// ...
try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer("source.docx")) {
comparer.add("target.docx");
final SaveOptions saveOptions = new SaveOptions();
saveOptions.setCloneMetadataType(MetadataType.TARGET);
final Path resultPath = comparer.compare("result.docx", saveOptions);
}
import com.groupdocs.comparison.Comparer;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.enums.MetadataType;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.options.save.SaveOptions;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import com.groupdocs.comparison.words.revision.*;
// ...
try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer("source.docx")) {
comparer.add("target.docx");
final FileAuthorMetadata fileAuthorMetadata = new FileAuthorMetadata();
fileAuthorMetadata.setAuthor("Tom");
fileAuthorMetadata.setCompany("GroupDocs");
fileAuthorMetadata.setLastSaveBy("Jack");
final SaveOptions saveOptions = new SaveOptions();
saveOptions.setCloneMetadataType(MetadataType.FILEAUTHOR);
saveOptions.setFileAuthorMetadata(fileAuthorMetadata);
final Path resultPath = comparer.compare("result.docx", saveOptions);
}
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