[PDFBOX-3479] NPE in AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue() if no rectangle in widget

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• External issue URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39260500/pdfbox-2-0-how-to-copy-pdtextfields-between-documents
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 01/Sep/16 17:37
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:13
• Resolved: 09/Sep/16 10:36

Description

As reported in the linked stackoveflow question, can be reproduced with the CreateSimpleForm example by removing the widget.setRectangle(rect);.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:137)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTerminalField.applyChange(PDTerminalField.java:225)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextField.java:218)

I'll throw an IOException.