Java Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Generate a QR Code with the Barcode Method

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Demonstrates the Barcode method, which is the general form of QrCode: the request names the symbology, and everything else is the same. QrCode is Barcode with the symbology already set to qr, and identical requests to the two methods give identical results. A program that will produce more than one kind of barcode can use Barcode for all of them. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Formats;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.JsonObject;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
        json.updateString("symbology", "qr");
        json.updateString("payload.text", "https://www.chilkatsoft.com/");
        json.updateString("output.path", "qa_output/qr_from_barcode.png");
        json.updateBool("output.overwrite", true);
        json.updateString("output.return", "none");

        Formats fmt = new Formats();
        JsonObject jsonOut = new JsonObject();
        try {
            fmt.barcode("generate", json, jsonOut);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("symbology: " + jsonOut.stringOf("symbols[0].symbology"));
        System.out.println("QR version: " + jsonOut.intOf("symbols[0].selectedEncoding.version"));
        System.out.println("image: " + jsonOut.intOf("outputs[0].width") + " x " + jsonOut.intOf("outputs[0].height") + " pixels");

        // The image written to qa_output/qr_from_barcode.png:

        // 

        // Barcode requires the symbology.  QrCode does not.
        JsonObject json2 = new JsonObject();
        json2.updateString("payload.text", "https://www.chilkatsoft.com/");
        try {
            fmt.barcode("generate", json2, jsonOut);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println("without a symbology: " + jsonOut.stringOf("errors[0].code") + " at " + jsonOut.stringOf("errors[0].path"));
        }

        // Sample output:

        // symbology: qr
        // QR version: 3
        // image: 148 x 148 pixels
        // without a symbology: missingOption at /symbology
    }
}