[PDFBOX-2868] NPE in Acroform getValueAsString

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 10/Jul/15 12:08
• Updated: 17/Mar/16 19:07
• Resolved: 13/Jul/15 09:45

Description

The most common exception in the first run of 2.0.0-trunk against govdocs1 is this:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDNonTerminalField.getValueAsString(PDNonTerminalField.java:181)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.addFieldString(PDF2XHTML.java:615)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.processAcroField(PDF2XHTML.java:580)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.extractAcroForm(PDF2XHTML.java:567)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.endDocument(PDF2XHTML.java:201)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:250)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.process(PDF2XHTML.java:137)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:132)

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-1285 Upgrade to PDFBox 2.0.0 when available