Tags not working properly for Slides in Java API

Aspose.Slides Product Family
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I'm attempting to add Tags to a Slide object to provide additional information for internal use by my program. The Tags class looks similar to a java hashtable - call put and provide it a key and a value, and I should be able to retrieve the value using the key. However, I am unable to get it to work correctly to retrieve the values back out of the object.

For example, I'm putting a value into the list, then immediately retrieving it:

slide.getTags().put("DOI", "2008-Mar-31");

System.out.println("Value="+slide.getTags().get("DOI"));

This prints out "null" for any key I add and try to retrieve. If I iterate through the Tags and print them, all the values are null.

If I write the PPT file and look at it in a hex editor, I see both my keys and values - no way to know whether they are correctly placed in the file, but at least the data has been seen and saved.

If I then read the PPT file back into a Presentation and look at the Tags of the slide, they appear to just return the key name as the value. For example: slide.getTags().get("DOI") returns "DOI".

This appears to be two different bugs? I haven't seen anywhere in the forums that anyone else has reported this. Is this a known issue? Can it be resolved?

Thanks.

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Dear maas,

Slide.getTags() are read-only, you cannot set them. As a workaround, you can use a textframe (textbox) with a single space and set its alternative text for keeping additional information.

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I'm sorry, that doesn't make any sense...

Do you mean that the slide tags are supposed to be read-only or that this feature isn't working correctly right now and Aspose doesn't plan on fixing it?

Consider:

1) Nothing in the API suggests these should be read-only.

2) Why would there be put() and set() methods in the Tag class if you aren't supposed to be able to change them?

3) I'm looking (in a hex editor) at the PPT file that was created after setting the tags, and I can see the tag key and value strings in the file - obviously the tags aren't read only - I was able to change them - they just aren't working correctly.

Using alternate text to accomplish what Tags are supposed to do is really kludgy - I'd really rather have a better solution. Any chance on getting this to work correctly in the near future - I can't be the only one that wants to do this.

Thanks.

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Hello Maas,

Thank you for the information you provided.
We will investigate this problem and fix in case of bug.

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Hi Alexey,

this is also a very important issue for us. Can you provide a timeframe when this bug will be fixed, so that we can decide to wait for a fix or to implement a workaround for our usecase.

Thanks
Tom Seidel
Spirit Link GmbH

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Hello Tom,

The bug was fixed yesterday. Now we are preparing new hot fix for release.
Most probably it will be available for download on weekends.