[TIKA-678] Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser

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

Environment

java 64bit ubuntu 11.04

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Izaak Alpert
• Created: 20/Jun/11 13:06
• Updated: 20/Oct/11 12:34
• Resolved: 15/Jul/11 14:16

Description

I get this exception from the tika-app with the command line:

java -jar tika-app-0.9.jar -t test.txt
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser@558041e0
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 org.apache.tika.parser.mail.MailContentHandler.field(MailContentHandler.java:130)
at org.apache.james.mime4j.parser.MimeStreamParser.parse(MimeStreamParser.java:121)
at org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser.parse(RFC822Parser.java:60)
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197)
... 5 more

It seems that what is really just a text file is identified as mail. I guess i'd expect this would fall back to a text parser if the mail processor can't handle it (the CC: can be optionally there).

The content of test.txt (i'll attach it as well)
cat test.txt
From: xyz, abc
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 4:21 PM
To: abc, def
Cc: eft,hij; [e-mail]
Subject: abcd

foo:

bar biz bat