In this tutorial we will cover how to implement asynchronous approach of Document Conversion Suite. You only need to send source document to SubmitTIFFConversionTask or SubmitPDFConversionTask API methods to receive task identifier as response. There is also SubmitDOCXConversionTask method to convert PDF documents to editable Microsoft Word document.

After receiving task identifier you need to check task status by calling GetConversionTaskStatus method. You need to call same method after a few seconds delay as long as task status equals to “Waiting”. Once you receive “Completed” from GetConversionTaskStatus method you can call DownloadResult method to download final document file. We have used Apache HTTP Client libraries in this tutorial. You can add dependencies below in your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
     <version>4.5.13</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
     <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
     <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
     <version>4.5.13</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
     <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
     <version>2.11.0</version>
</dependency>

You can use the Java implementation below.

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.HttpMultipartMode;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntityBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;

public class DocumentConverter {
    private static String submitPdfConversionTask(CloseableHttpClient httpClient, String filePathToConvert, String rapidApiKey) throws IOException {
        File fileToConvert = new File(filePathToConvert);
        HttpPost submitPDFConversionTaskPost = new HttpPost("https://petadata-document-conversion-suite.p.rapidapi.com/SubmitPDFConversionTask");
        submitPDFConversionTaskPost.addHeader("X-RapidAPI-Key", rapidApiKey);
        byte[] bytes = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(fileToConvert);

        MultipartEntityBuilder builder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
        builder.setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
        builder.addBinaryBody("file", bytes, ContentType.DEFAULT_BINARY, fileToConvert.getName());
        builder.addTextBody("authorName", "Sebastian", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
        builder.addTextBody("title", "Final report", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
        builder.addTextBody("keywords", "Reports, Final", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
        builder.addTextBody("name", "Quarterly Final Report", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);

        HttpEntity requestEntity = builder.build();
        submitPDFConversionTaskPost.setEntity(requestEntity);
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(submitPDFConversionTaskPost);
        if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
            throw  new IOException("Cannot post conversion task");
        }

        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
        return EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity, "UTF-8");
    }

    private static String getConversionTaskStatus(CloseableHttpClient httpClient, String taskId, String rapidApiKey) throws IOException {
        HttpGet getConversionTaskStatus = new HttpGet("https://petadata-document-conversion-suite.p.rapidapi.com/GetConversionTaskStatus?taskId=" + taskId);
        getConversionTaskStatus.addHeader("X-RapidAPI-Key", rapidApiKey);

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(getConversionTaskStatus);
        if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
            throw  new IOException("Cannot get conversion task status");
        }

        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
        return EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity, "UTF-8");
    }

    private static byte[] downloadResult(CloseableHttpClient httpClient, String taskId, String rapidApiKey) throws IOException {
        HttpGet downloadResult = new HttpGet("https://petadata-document-conversion-suite.p.rapidapi.com/DownloadResult?taskId=" + taskId);
        downloadResult.addHeader("X-RapidAPI-Key", rapidApiKey);

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(downloadResult);
        if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
            throw  new IOException("Cannot get converted file");
        }

        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
        return EntityUtils.toByteArray(responseEntity);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String rapidApiKey = "<YOUR RAPIDAPI KEY HERE>";
        String filePathToConvert = "<FILE PATH TO CONVERT>";

        CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
        String taskId = submitPdfConversionTask(httpClient, filePathToConvert, rapidApiKey);
        int retryCount = 0;
        while (retryCount < 100)
        {
            retryCount++;
            Thread.sleep(5000);
            String status = getConversionTaskStatus(httpClient, taskId, rapidApiKey);
            if (status.equals("Completed"))
            {
                byte[] fileBytes = downloadResult(httpClient, taskId, rapidApiKey);
                File outputFile =new File("final_report.pdf");
                Files.write(outputFile.toPath(), fileBytes);
                break;
            }
            else if (status.equals("Waiting"))
            {
                continue;
            }
            else if (status.equals("Failed"))
            {
                throw new Exception("Cannot convert file");
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("Invalid status");
            }
        }
    }
}