[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-2885) NPE in PDNonTerminalField.getChildren()

["Tilman Hausherr (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tilman Hausherr created PDFBOX-2885:
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             Summary: NPE in PDNonTerminalField.getChildren()
                 Key: PDFBOX-2885
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2885
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: AcroForm
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
            Reporter: Tilman Hausherr


{code}
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDNonTerminalField.getChildren(PDNonTerminalField.java:130)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.process.AcroFormValidationProcess.validateField(AcroFormValidationProcess.java:196)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.process.AcroFormValidationProcess.exploreFields(AcroFormValidationProcess.java:114)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.process.AcroFormValidationProcess.validate(AcroFormValidationProcess.java:64)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.utils.ContextHelper.callValidation(ContextHelper.java:84)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.utils.ContextHelper.validateElement(ContextHelper.java:122)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.preflight.PreflightDocument.validate(PreflightDocument.java:163)
	at com.mycompany.preflightmasstest.PreflightChecker.run(PreflightChecker.java:52)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
{code}
The "field" / annotation that makes the problem is at "36 0 o", it is the link annotation.

>From my understanding, this is an incorrect PDF, a link annotation isn't a field. I tried just returning null, that works with preflight.



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