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afreakyelf / Pdf-Viewer

A Lightweight PDF Viewer Android library which only occupies around 80kb while most of the Pdf viewer occupies up to 16MB space.
https://afreakyelf.github.io/Pdf-Viewer/
MIT License
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Improve Error Handling when receiving invalid PDF #138

Open LarsWigger opened 4 weeks ago

LarsWigger commented 4 weeks ago

I just spent quit a bit of time debugging the PdfRendererView.initWithUrl() call because the app kept crashing when trying to load a specific PDF. In the end, the issue was that the server sent a 302 with a small HTML message when using the default headers (while accepting the default headers of every single other client I tried).

While this was not an issue on the side of Pdf-Viewer, I found the error handling pretty unhelpful and it definitely should not allow the app to crash when such a thing happens. I encountered two separate issues: The download silently failing because it was incomplete (I think the statusListener did not react to this, even though I saw the error messages in the logs) and the main issue of the app crashing when the data received was actually not a PDF document.

I suggest trying to download invalid data and checking whether the error handling is graceful and the error logging can be improved.

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