[PDFBOX-3301] NPE in PDAcroForm.flatten if a widget doesn't contain a /P entry

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
• Created: 01/Apr/16 07:03
• Updated: 29/Aug/19 16:21
• Resolved: 19/Apr/16 10:50

Description

A form filling issue was discussed on the users mailing list where one of the issues was that the widget annotations do not contain a /P entry.

This led to an NPE:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.<init>(PDPageContentStream.java:195)

As the /P entry is an optional entry the code would not opened on that entry.

Issue Links

• is related to: PDFBOX-4636 "There has been a widget with a missing page reference" and non widget annotation gets flattened