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TransformerCli throws a NPE and stops processing with pftaps19860826_wk34.zip #41

Closed pedagogly closed 7 years ago

pedagogly commented 7 years ago 
2017-01-20 11:03:44,700 INFO  [main] TransformerCli - Record: 'US4607439A' from pftaps19860826_wk34.zip:176
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at gov.uspto.patent.serialize.JsonMapper.mapName(JsonMapper.java:376)
    at gov.uspto.patent.serialize.JsonMapper.mapInventors(JsonMapper.java:336)
    at gov.uspto.patent.serialize.JsonMapper.buildJson(JsonMapper.java:101)
    at gov.uspto.patent.serialize.JsonMapper.write(JsonMapper.java:69)
    at gov.uspto.patent.serialize.JsonMapper.write(JsonMapper.java:57)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.write(TransformerCli.java:217)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.processDumpFile(TransformerCli.java:201)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.process(TransformerCli.java:122)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.main(TransformerCli.java:298)
bgfeldm commented 7 years ago 
INVT
NAM  1

Fails because Inventor name is invalid: "1" ; which gets carried along as Null.

I will change the code to keep the value and but still throw a warning.