Stroking rect background - pdfbox

Question

I've recently updated PDFBox to version 2.0.0 (for its new images methods) but they've changed the way you fill a rect.
Previously you would addRect, set the stroking color and struck, set the non-stroking color and fill the rect.
Now the fillRect has been replaced with fill and I'm unable to stroke and fill. Calling stroking after filling will do nothing and vice-versa.
Now I'm forced to call addRect for a second time to get the desired effect.
Any help with updating my method?

Answer 1

Previously you would addRect, set the stroking color and struck
... and in doing so create an invalid PDF! Between the start of path creation (here: addRect) and its drawing (here: stroke), only additional path creation operations and eventually optionally a clipping path operation are allowed. Your setting the stroking color in-between is invalid.
Most PDF viewers don't complain about this invalid syntax but it is invalid nonetheless...
Now the fillRect has been replaced with fill and I'm unable to stroke and fill.
fillRect still is there and merely has been deprecated. Thus, you can look what it does:
public void fillRect(float x, float y, float width, float height) throws IOException
{
if (inTextMode)
{
throw new IllegalStateException("Error: fillRect is not allowed within a text block.");
}
addRect(x, y, width, height);
fill();
}
Thus, if you used to do
setStrokingColor(...);
addRect(...);
stroke();
setNonStrokingColor(...);
fillRect(...);
in PDFBox 1.8.x, you can do the same in 2.0.0 or (to not use deprecated methods) replace the last line by
addRect(...);
fill();
Now I'm forced to call addRect for a second time to get the desired effect.
But that is what you under the hood used to do before, too!
PS Recently two new operations have been added to PDFBox' PDPageContentStream class: fillAndStroke, fillAndStrokeEvenOdd, closeAndFillAndStroke, and closeAndFillAndStrokeEvenOdd. Thus, now you can also use
setStrokingColor(...);
setNonStrokingColor(...);
addRect(...);
fillAndStroke();