[TIKA-1233] PDFBox can throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on some dates

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.10
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: easyfix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 05/Feb/14 17:07
• Updated: 23/Jul/15 01:09
• Resolved: 23/Jul/15 01:09

Description

PDFBOX's date parser can throw a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException if a date string for parsing is empty or contains only spaces. A few of my test pdfs have this "feature."

Until PDFBOX-1803 is resolved, we can add an extra catch to prevent this from causing problems in TIKA

@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@
             addMetadata(metadata, TikaCoreProperties.CREATED, info.getCreationDate());
         } catch (IOException e) {
             // Invalid date format, just ignore
+        } catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
+            //remove after PDFBOX-1883 is fixed
+            // Invalid date format, just ignore
         }
         try {
             Calendar modified = info.getModificationDate();
@@ -178,6 +181,9 @@
             addMetadata(metadata, TikaCoreProperties.MODIFIED, modified);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             // Invalid date format, just ignore
+        } catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
+            //remove after PDFBOX-1883 is fixed
+            // Invalid date format, just ignore
         }

Issue Links

• depends upon: PDFBOX-2823 StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when doing DateConverter.parseDate()
• depends upon: PDFBOX-1803 StringIndexOutOfBound on DateConverter.toCalendar
• relates to: TIKA-1457 NullPointerException in tika-app, parsing PDF content
• relates to: TIKA-1588 Upgrade to PDFBox 1.8.10 when available