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TransformerCli throws an NPE and stops processing pftaps19920714_wk28.zip #50

Closed pedagogly closed 7 years ago

pedagogly commented 7 years ago 
2017-01-26 15:06:08,005 INFO  [main] TransformerCli - Record: 'US5129494A' from pftaps19920714_wk28.zip:612 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException   
    at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:770)
    at com.google.common.base.Splitter.splitToList(Splitter.java:408)
    at gov.uspto.patent.doc.greenbook.items.NameNode.read(NameNode.java:29)
    at gov.uspto.patent.doc.greenbook.fragments.InventorNode.readInventor(InventorNode.java:41)
    at gov.uspto.patent.doc.greenbook.fragments.InventorNode.read(InventorNode.java:31)
    at gov.uspto.patent.doc.greenbook.Greenbook.parse(Greenbook.java:132)
    at gov.uspto.parser.dom4j.keyvalue.KvParser.parse(KvParser.java:65)
    at gov.uspto.patent.PatentReader.read(PatentReader.java:70)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.processDumpFile(TransformerCli.java:180)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.process(TransformerCli.java:122)
    at gov.uspto.patent.TransformerCli.main(TransformerCli.java:298)

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bgfeldm commented 7 years ago

Looks like an error I fixed previously. I don't get an NPE when running TransformerCli on pftaps19880426_wk17.zip. Try rebuilding and deploying the updated jar file. And let me know if you are still getting an issue.

pedagogly commented 7 years ago

Thanks, you are correct. I should have checked for changes and incorporated them before posting a bug. All the GreenBook files work now.