Gah, I'm back. Ok, so now I'm trying to extract the text from a word document
being uploaded to the server. (This is all in coldfusion). I first write a
temp copy of the file to the disk. I have verified the file writes
successfully and can be opened in word. Then, I try to use POI to read the
file, but now I'm getting an exception when I try to use ExtractorFactory to
createExtractor for the file. All coldfusion is giving me in my catch is the
exception without any output. I might have to just take it out of try block
once and let it bomb out to see more. Anyway, the exception I'm getting is
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException. I really don't get it because
I've been following this page as a guide
https://www.raymondcamden.com/2009/02/05/Reading-Office-documents-with-ColdFusion-2/.
Here's a snippet of my code:
<cfset message = "initializing javaloader">
<cfset variables.loader = createObject("component",
"xxx.library.javaloader.JavaLoader").init(paths)>
<cfset message = "creating extractor factory">
<cfset wordext =
loader.create("org.apache.poi.extractor.ExtractorFactory")>
<cfset message = "opening file">
<cfset fileinput = createObject("java", "java.io.File")>
<cfset fileinput.init("#cffile.serverDirectory#\#cffile.serverFile#")>
<cfif fileinput.exists()>
<cfset message = "creating extractor">
<cfset extractor = wordext.createExtractor(fileinput)> <-- bombs
here as the last message it outputs is "creating extractor"
<cfset message = "extracting text">
<cfset fileBinary = extractor.getText()>
<cfset message = "closing file">
<cfset fileinput.close()>
</cfif>
Thanks,
Thaddaeus Fillmore
CACI International Inc.
Systems Analyst
703-460-1425
