M12: XFA dates are written and read in the field's data picture

A field's data picture (<bind><picture>, such as date{YYYYMMDD}) is how
its value is written in the XFA data, but PdfCraft always wrote dates
there as ISO (2026-10-18) and read them back as ISO, so a form that keeps
its dates as 20261018 got a different format from PdfCraft than from
other viewers, and data those viewers wrote was shown as stored.

The parser keeps <bind><picture> as Field::data_picture. A typed date is
still read in the field's own pattern and turned into ISO; it is then
written in the data picture when the field has one. Reading goes the
other way, on layout and when values are taken from the data of a form
laid out before. A value that doesn't match its data picture is read as
ISO, so data written by earlier versions still reads. The date-letters
rule for XFA picture clauses moves to one helper (date_letters) that the
layout's date_pattern now uses too.
This commit is contained in:
Eric Kaden
2026-10-18 23:46:43 -04:00
parent 4db6ac4ae2
commit 93f90ef760
8 changed files with 147 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -5244,8 +5244,8 @@ milestone = "M12"
status = "partial"
commands = ["file.open", "file.save", "form.export_data", "form.import_data"]
tools = ["doc_open", "form_fill", "doc_save", "doc_export_data", "doc_import_data", "form_set_image"]
evidence = ["crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::the_datasets_packet_is_written_from_the_fields_and_read_back", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_fills_the_fields_and_adds_rows", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::dynamic_xfa_forms_are_laid_out_on_open_filled_and_saved_incrementally", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_paths_leave_areas_out", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_rows_in_areas_are_laid_out_read_calculated_and_written_where_adobe_binds_them", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_exports_as_datasets_xml_or_an_xdp_and_imports_from_any_of_them", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::a_picture_chosen_for_an_image_field_is_kept_in_the_data_with_its_content_type", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_data_exports_imports_and_pictures_round_trip_through_the_session", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_data_import_adds_and_removes_rows_of_a_dynamic_form", "crates/automation/tests/automation.rs::xfa_data_files_export_and_import_through_tools"]
notes = "the datasets packet inside the PDF: read on open (values, dates in ISO form, check and radio states, extra rows for repeating subforms) and rewritten after every form edit from the fields' SOM paths (/PCSom), with areas left out of data paths as Adobe binds them. Export Data writes it as XML (the data alone, rooted at the form's root data node, as Acrobat does) or an XDP with the whole datasets and a reference to the PDF; Import Data takes an XDP, datasets or data XML file (or a bare data document) as the form's whole data, keeping data descriptions, lays a dynamic form out again from it (rows added and removed, more than 50 rows reported) and runs its calculations, undoable; a static form's fields take the data and the rest are emptied; the file's data is re-serialized with the packet's own prefix and every packet rewrite is parsed back before it is written; XFDF/FDF/CSV still go the AcroForm way. Files are UTF-8, UTF-16 or ISO-8859-1, at most 16 MB and 64 levels deep; pictures at most 8 MB (PNG, JPEG, GIF). Pictures chosen for image fields are kept in the data as base64 with xfa:contentType, as Designer saves them. Missing: explicit bind refs, data descriptions are kept but not checked, no data connection (WSDL/ODBC)"
evidence = ["crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::the_datasets_packet_is_written_from_the_fields_and_read_back", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::a_date_is_read_from_the_data_in_its_data_picture", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_dates_are_written_and_read_back_in_their_data_picture", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_fills_the_fields_and_adds_rows", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::dynamic_xfa_forms_are_laid_out_on_open_filled_and_saved_incrementally", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_paths_leave_areas_out", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_rows_in_areas_are_laid_out_read_calculated_and_written_where_adobe_binds_them", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_exports_as_datasets_xml_or_an_xdp_and_imports_from_any_of_them", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::a_picture_chosen_for_an_image_field_is_kept_in_the_data_with_its_content_type", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_data_exports_imports_and_pictures_round_trip_through_the_session", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_data_import_adds_and_removes_rows_of_a_dynamic_form", "crates/automation/tests/automation.rs::xfa_data_files_export_and_import_through_tools"]
notes = "the datasets packet inside the PDF: read on open (values, dates in ISO form, or in the field's data picture (`<bind><picture>`, such as date{YYYYMMDD}) when it has one, which saving writes them in too, check and radio states, extra rows for repeating subforms) and rewritten after every form edit from the fields' SOM paths (/PCSom), with areas left out of data paths as Adobe binds them. Export Data writes it as XML (the data alone, rooted at the form's root data node, as Acrobat does) or an XDP with the whole datasets and a reference to the PDF; Import Data takes an XDP, datasets or data XML file (or a bare data document) as the form's whole data, keeping data descriptions, lays a dynamic form out again from it (rows added and removed, more than 50 rows reported) and runs its calculations, undoable; a static form's fields take the data and the rest are emptied; the file's data is re-serialized with the packet's own prefix and every packet rewrite is parsed back before it is written; XFDF/FDF/CSV still go the AcroForm way. Files are UTF-8, UTF-16 or ISO-8859-1, at most 16 MB and 64 levels deep; pictures at most 8 MB (PNG, JPEG, GIF). Pictures chosen for image fields are kept in the data as base64 with xfa:contentType, as Designer saves them. Missing: explicit bind refs, data descriptions are kept but not checked, no data connection (WSDL/ODBC)"
[[feature]]
id = "form.xfa-flatten"