PDF comparison without null pointer exception in Java

GroupDocs.Comparison Product Family
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@iahemmin,

Can you please share the problematic files (source and target) and sample code with us? Also share the API version that you integrated.

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Version 19.3
Used source and target PDF from the demo project. source.pdf (80.3 KB)
target.pdf (80.4 KB)
Thanks for your time

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@iahemmin,

Please share sample code as well.

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Main: package com.groupdocs.comparison.examples;public class MainClass { publi - Pastebin.com
PDFDocument: package com.groupdocs.comparison.examples;import com.groupdocs.comparison.Co - Pastebin.com
Utilities: package com.groupdocs.comparison.examples;import java.io.FileInputStream;i - Pastebin.com

I really just took the supplied example end deleted the unneeded methods.

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@iahemmin,

We couldn’t reproduce this issue at our end. Please find the resultant file attached - output.zip (95.3 KB)
However, in order to further investigate this issue, we need following information:

  • Your complete console application/project
  • Operating system and its version
  • IDE that you are using
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Thank you for taking your time!
Groupdocs.zip (905.4 KB)
macOS Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226)
IntelliJ 2018.3.5
JDK 10

Any suggestions what I should try?

I’ve debugged the code and found that the result is null. All files are beeing found and are valid.

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@iahemmin,

Do you face this issue just in case of PDF comparison? Can you please check this with some other file format (Word)? Please share a screencast of this scenario as well.
We’d appreciate your cooperation in this regard.

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I’m getting this error while running a comparison ond a word document:

Caused by: class com.groupdocs.comparison.internal.c.a.s.exceptions.ArgumentException: Culture Name: en-CH is not a supported culture

I’m happy to upload a short video while running the code. You can expect it here in roughly three hours.

Thanks

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Just ran your docker image and am encountering the same problem.

Logs: docker.txt.zip (3.4 KB)

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@iahemmin,

Thanks for sharing the details. We’ll appreciate if you cover both scenarios in the screencast.

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Sorry for letting you wait had a lot of things to do.

You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/57nSLnoDPEU

Please tell me if you need any further information from my side I’m happy to help!

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@iahemmin,

Thanks for sharing the video.
This seems to be a environment based issue. We are further investigating it at our end. Your investigation ticket ID is COMPARISONJAVA-586.
As we have any futher update on this, we’ll surely notify you.

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Hi,

Even i am getting same Null pointer Exception as above while comparing 2 PDF files. My Environment details are as below.

OS : Windows 10 64 bit
JDK : jdk1.8.0_112
IDE : Eclipse neon (4.6.0)

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@ashwin1483,

Your query is addressed here.

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@iahemmin,

Can you please confirm if you get Null pointer exception using attached files?
testsource.pdf (2.1 KB)
testtarget.pdf (2.4 KB)

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The result which gets returned is still null.

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@iahemmin,

This could be because of missing fonts. Can you please confirm if Times New Roman is installed in your environment? If no, then install the font and do comparison again.

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Times New Roman is installed on my environment.

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@iahemmin,

We are further investigating this.

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@iahemmin,

We noticed that you applied following code in applyLicenseFromFile method:

if(lic.isValidLicense()){
      System.out.println("License is validated");
}

But this message (License is validated) never appears in your console. Make sure you have a valid license and it is applied properly.
We also get null pointer exception when license is not properly loaded or applied.