All, I've begun testing POI 3.5 beta 3 for it's ability to extract text from the new MS doc formats along with the open office formats. However, I've been seeing a dozen or so ppt files in the test sample fail with a NPE as follows:
java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.SimpleShape.getClientRecords(SimpleShape.java:322) at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.SimpleShape.getClientDataRecord(SimpleShape.java:307) at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.TextShape.getPlaceholderAtom(TextShape.java:547) at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.Sheet.getPlaceholder(Sheet.java:408) at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.HeadersFooters.isVisible(HeadersFooters.java:244) at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.HeadersFooters.isHeaderVisible(HeadersFooters.java:148) at org.apache.poi.hslf.extractor.PowerPointExtractor.getText(PowerPointExtractor.java:173) at org.apache.poi.hslf.extractor.PowerPointExtractor.getText(PowerPointExtractor.java:144) at com.jivesoftware.community.search.extractor.POIExtractor.extractText(POIExtractor.java:120) If required for a fix I have an example ~5Mb ppt file that exhibits the above issue I can email to whomever wants to take a look at this issue. Regards, Bruce Ritchie
