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Commit 1701905 from [~msahyoun] in branch 'pdfbox/trunk'
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PDFBOX-2965: avoid NPE in getField() if the /Fields entry is missing

> NPE in PDAcroForm.getField() if the /Fields entry is missing
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2965
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2965
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: AcroForm
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.10, 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
>            Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
>             Fix For: 1.8.11, 2.0.0
>
>
> Form the users mailing list
> {quote}
> I get a lot of weird documents.  When I try to set a particular field value, 
> some of them throw NullPointerExceptions from line PDAcroForm.getField(), 
> line 291:
> 287: COSArray fields =
> 288:    (COSArray) acroForm.getDictionaryObject(
> 289:        COSName.getPDFName("Fields"));
> 290:
> 291: for (int i = 0; i < fields.size() && retval == null; i++)
> 292:{
> To avoid this, at first I was calling PDAcroForm.getFields() and checking 
> that to see if that was NULL but I realized that it would usually create a 
> new fields array to return which seemed wasteful.
> Is the most efficient way to avoid this to first call:
>    COSArray fields =  (COSArray) acroForm.getDictionaryObject( 
> COSName.getPDFName("Fields"));
> myself and check if that is NULL? 
> Secondary Question:
> The method PDAcroForm.getFields() does a not-NULL check of fields before 
> calling fields.size().
> Is there a reason that this check is not performed in getField()?
> {quote}



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