Error: can only iterate over an array or an instance of java.lang.Iterable

Question

please help me with my error can't seem to make it work because of that can only iterate over an array or an instance of java.lang.Iterable. i want to create a barcode and read it and add it to the word document

Update Post the nodeCollection is from the com.aspose.words.

import com.aspose.barcode.*;
import com.aspose.barcoderecognition.BarCodeReadType;
import com.aspose.barcoderecognition.BarCodeReader;
import com.aspose.words.Document;
import com.aspose.words.DocumentBuilder;
import com.aspose.words.ImageType;
import com.aspose.words.NodeCollection;
import com.aspose.words.NodeType;
import com.aspose.words.Shape;

              try
        {
            // Generate barcode image
            BarCodeBuilder builder = new BarCodeBuilder();
            builder.setSymbologyType(Symbology.Code39Standard);
            builder.setCodeText("test-123");
            String strBarCodeImageSave = "img.jpg";
            builder.save(strBarCodeImageSave);

            // Add the image to a Word doc
            Document doc = new Document();
            DocumentBuilder docBuilder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
            docBuilder.insertImage(strBarCodeImageSave);
            String strWordFile = "docout.doc";
            doc.save(strWordFile);

            // Recognition part
            // Extract image from the Word document
            NodeCollection<Shape> shapes = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.SHAPE, true, false);
            int imageIndex = 0;

            for(Shape shape: shapes)
            {   
                if (shape.hasImage())
                {
                    // If this shape is an image, extract image to file
                    String extension = ImageTypeToExtension(shape.getImageData().getImageType());
                    String imageFileName = MessageFormat.format("Image.ExportImages.{0} Out.{1}", imageIndex, extension);
                    String strBarCodeImageExtracted = "" + imageFileName;
                    shape.getImageData().save(strBarCodeImageExtracted);

                    // Recognize barcode from this image
                    BarCodeReader reader = new BarCodeReader((BufferedImage) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(strBarCodeImageExtracted),BarCodeReadType.Code39Standard);
                    while (reader.read())
                    {
                        System.out.println("codetext: " + reader.getCodeText());
                    }
                    imageIndex++;
                }
            }
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        }
    }

    private static String ImageTypeToExtension(int imageType) throws Exception
    {
        switch (imageType)
        {
            case ImageType.BMP:
                return "bmp";
            case ImageType.EMF:
                return "emf";
            case ImageType.JPEG:
                return "jpeg";
            case ImageType.PICT:
                return "pict";
            case ImageType.PNG:
                return "png";
            case ImageType.WMF:
                return "wmf";
            default:
                throw new Exception("Unknown image type.");
        }
    }}

Answer 1

I assume Nodecollection is a com.aspose.words.NodeCollection.

If you want to use the foreach syntax you better do:

Node[] shapesArray = shapes.toArray();
for (Node node : shapesArray ){ ...

Answer 2

Error: can only iterate over an array or an instance of java.lang.Iterable

It clearly says that you should iterate only on objects which are iterable.

In your code you are using

NodeCollection<Shape> shapes = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.SHAPE, true, false);
...    
for(Shape shape: shapes)

The for loop fails unless the shapes base class is an instance of a java.util.Collection or java.lang.Iterable.

Check if NodeCollection is a collection type class that implemented java.lang.Iterable.

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Edit:

the nodeCollection is from the com.aspose.words.

NodeCollection implements generic Iterable directly, without specifying the type of objects it would be handling. Hence you should explicitly generate the Iterator from the NodeCollection instance and on that you can iterate.

NodeCollection<Shape> shapes = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.SHAPE, true, false);
Iterator<Shape> shapesIterator = shapes.iterator();
...    
// now use the above iterator in for loop, as below
for( Shape shape: shapesIterator )

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