[TIKA-621] RTF parsing fails with Java 7 early access on 64bit platforms

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8, 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.10
• Component/s: parser

Environment

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-ea-b134)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b04, mixed mode)

(Seen using this version of Java on both Windows 2008 and CentOS 5)

• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Matt Sheppard
• Created: 24/Mar/11 23:05
• Updated: 20/Oct/11 12:34
• Resolved: 13/Apr/11 17:08

Description

I've run across an RTF documents which tika is failing to convert on 64bit platforms (Windows and Linux) using the Java 7 early access version. The same document is successfully converted on 32bit Windows and Linux, and using Java 6.

java -jar tika-app-0.9.jar -t full.rtf 
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.rtf.RTFParser@1fa78298
	at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:199)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:135)
	at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI$OutputType.process(TikaCLI.java:107)
	at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:302)
	at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:91)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at javax.swing.text.GapContent.compare(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.GapContent.findSortIndex(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.GapContent.createPosition(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.createPosition(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument$LeafElement.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.createLeafElement(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument$ElementBuffer.insertElement(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument$ElementBuffer.insertUpdate(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument$ElementBuffer.insert(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument.insertUpdate(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.handleInsertString(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.insertString(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.rtf.RTFParser$CustomStyledDocument.insertString(RTFParser.java:376)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFReader$DocumentDestination.deliverText(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFReader$TextHandlingDestination.handleText(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFReader.handleText(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFParser.write(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.AbstractFilter.write(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.AbstractFilter.readFromStream(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit.read(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.rtf.RTFParser.parse(RTFParser.java:112)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197)
	... 5 more

The document in question is available at http://public.funnelback.com/full.rtf