Method: PDF::Reader::ObjectHash#fetch

Defined in:
lib/pdf/reader/object_hash.rb

#fetch(key, local_default = nil) ⇒ Object

Access an object from the PDF. key can be an int or a PDF::Reader::Reference object.

If an int is used, the object with that ID and a generation number of 0 will be returned.

If a PDF::Reader::Reference object is used the exact ID and generation number can be specified.

local_default is the object that will be returned if the requested key doesn’t exist.



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# File 'lib/pdf/reader/object_hash.rb', line 348

def fetch(key, local_default = nil)
  obj = self[key]
  if obj
    return obj
  elsif local_default
    return local_default
  else
    raise IndexError, "#{key} is invalid" if key.to_i <= 0
  end
end