[PDFBOX-3726] NPE when setting the field value in an AcroForm and the NormalAppearance entry exists but is COSNull

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.6, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
• Created: 20/Mar/17 21:54
• Updated: 15/May/17 20:28
• Resolved: 23/Mar/17 11:06

Description

When the NormalAppearance entry exists in a PDAnnotationWidget but the entry is COSNull and NPE is raised similar to

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:137) 

See PDFBOX-3723 for a sample.