[PDFBOX-3882] False negative on PDFA-1b validation : missing field type

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: XmpBox
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Ribes
• Created: 27/Jul/17 11:23
• Updated: 31/Jul/17 11:11

Description

The preflight validation of the file ticket-0028422.pdf reports it as invalid whereas it is valid according to https://www.pdf-online.com/osa/validate.aspx.

Calling parse with parameter Format.PDF_A1B, I get a single org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.ValidationReport$ValidationError with :
details : Error on MetaData, Missing field in type definition
errorCode : 7.5
isWarning : false
pageNumber : null
cause :
org.apache.xmpbox.xml.XmpParsingException: Missing field in type definition
at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populatePDFAType(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:210)
at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populatePDFASchemaType(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:145)
at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populateSchemaMapping(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:116)
at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.DomXmpParser.parse(DomXmpParser.java:200)
at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.process.MetadataValidationProcess.validate(MetadataValidationProcess.java:69)
at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.utils.ContextHelper.callValidation(ContextHelper.java:84)
at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.utils.ContextHelper.validateElement(ContextHelper.java:122)
at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.PreflightDocument.validate(PreflightDocument.java:163)
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