Derrick Johnson created TIKA-1163: ------------------------------------- Summary: NPE thrown by TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig() Key: TIKA-1163 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1163 Project: Tika Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.4 Environment: OS-X, JDK 1.7 Reporter: Derrick Johnson
The below exception gets thrown every time I execute TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig. Similary, invoking `Tika t = new Tika()` throws the same exception, since code inside this constructor invokes TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig(). This problem is non-existent when I use Tika-core and Tika-parsers 1.0. But when bump the version numbers to 1.2 (in order to get around a bug in PDFBOX), the problem shows up. I'm using maven. I've carefully ensured that I'm not pulling in the wrong version of Tika, using things like `mvn dependency:tree` and making there were no sneaky problematic transitive dependencies. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesReader$ClauseRecord.stop(MimeTypesReader.java:245) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesReader.endElement(MimeTypesReader.java:203) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:606) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:183) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1303) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2717) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:607) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:489) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:835) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:123) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1210) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:568) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:302) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:195) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesReader.read(MimeTypesReader.java:115) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesFactory.create(MimeTypesFactory.java:64) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesFactory.create(MimeTypesFactory.java:93) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypesFactory.create(MimeTypesFactory.java:149) at org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypes.getDefaultMimeTypes(MimeTypes.java:479) at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.getDefaultMimeTypes(TikaConfig.java:60) at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.<init>(TikaConfig.java:169) at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig(TikaConfig.java:268) at my.method.which.invokes `new Tika()` -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira