[PDFBOX-5099] PDDocumentInformation java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 2

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.21
• Environment: PDFBox 2.0.21 Java
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stefan Geelen
• Created: 09/Feb/21 12:40
• Updated: 10/Feb/21 16:17
• Resolved: 10/Feb/21 16:17

Description

I have a PDF without CreateDate

Following 

PDDocumentInformation docinfo = pdDoc.getDocumentInformation();

docinfo.getCreationDate();

throws

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 2java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 2 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.parseDate(DateConverter.java:656) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.toCalendar(DateConverter.java:724) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.toCalendar(DateConverter.java:702) at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary.getDate(COSDictionary.java:861) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentInformation.getCreationDate(PDDocumentInformation.java:212)

Better should be to return null in case no createdate exists (same with getModificationDate I assume - not tested).

Currently there is no other way tha putting this in a  try catch to omit this error.

a 

docinfo.hasCreationDate();

would also be handy (same for other properties).

Looking inside the PDF structure this is the Info:

7 0 obj
<<
/CreationDate (D: )
/Creator (Samsung Electronics)
/Producer (CloudConvert)
/ModDate (D:20210209103114Z)
/Keywords (urn:uuid:313707-D7BA577B-6584-AC90-7235-4BDFD4C6CCB8)

 

I guess it is an illegal Date value .

 

 

 

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-5046 StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when doing DateConverter.parseDate()