How to Validate a PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation using Java

Accessing stored PowerPoint presentations is a common occurrence in most offices. These presentations often contain useful information and/or instructions on a variety of topics related to our business. Given this utility, it’s crucial to ensure PowerPoints are always saved correctly in a valid format before passing to the database. By incorporating our PPTX Validation API, you can streamline the PowerPoint data validation process and quickly find out if the document contains any errors — and if so, how many there were, along with a string describing the errors in some more detail. Further, this API return whether or not a given PPTX file is password protected.

Below, I will demonstrate how you can utilize this API & structure your API call with Java.

Let’s start with Maven SDK installation. First, include the following reference in the repository in pom.xml:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Next, include the following reference in pom.xml dependency:

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Cloudmersive</groupId>
    <artifactId>Cloudmersive.APIClient.Java</artifactId>
    <version>v4.25</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

With installation complete, you can now add the import classes to the top of your file and call the function. Before you do so, ensure you have a Cloudmersive API key handy; if not, you can easily get one by registering a free account on our website.

// Import classes:
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiClient;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiException;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.Configuration;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.auth.*;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.ValidateDocumentApi;
ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("Apikey");
Apikey.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY");
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.setApiKeyPrefix("Token");
ValidateDocumentApi apiInstance = new ValidateDocumentApi();
File inputFile = new File("/path/to/inputfile"); // File | Input file to perform the operation on.
try {
    DocumentValidationResult result = apiInstance.validateDocumentPptxValidation(inputFile);
    System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
    System.err.println("Exception when calling ValidateDocumentApi#validateDocumentPptxValidation");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

And with that, you’re all done — no further code required.