Apache Tika : parsing visio files (.vsd)

Question

I'm currently writing a program in Java to extract metadata from multiple document type. At the moment I'm trying to extract metadata from .vsd files using Apache Tika. I previously tried using Apache POI directly, but the fact is it's very hard to find any documentation on this unusued part of the library, so I decided to go with Tika.

Ok, so here is the code sample I'm crashing on ( crash at line : 7) :

        ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        WriteOutContentHandler handler = new WriteOutContentHandler(10 * 1024 * 1024);
try {
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
            OfficeParser officeParser = new OfficeParser();
            officeParser.parse(fis, handler, metadata, context);
            String[] metadataNames = metadata.names();

            // Display all metadata
            for (String name : metadataNames) {
                System.out.println(name + ": " + metadata.get(name));
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException E) {
            System.out.println("No such files : " + fileName);
        }

And here is the stacktrace :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: TODO at org.apache.poi.hdgf.pointers.PointerFactory.createPointer(PointerFactory.java:45) at org.apache.poi.hdgf.HDGFDiagram.(HDGFDiagram.java:99) at org.apache.poi.hdgf.extractor.VisioTextExtractor.(VisioTextExtractor.java:55) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:200) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:161) at VsdFile.displayMetadata(VsdFile.java:43) at main.main(main.java:26) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)

I'm pretty rusty in Java, so I hope my question is not too obvious to answer to.

Thank you.

Regards,

Bdloul

It looks like you have an older (v5) vision file which isn't currently supported by Apache POI (hence the TODO). Might you be willing to do a little bit of coding, and submit a patch to add the missing functionality? — Gagravarr, Jan 18 '13 at 09:53
You'd want to grab the file format specification documentation from the Microsoft website, then cross reference that with some hex dumps from a few different files.... — Gagravarr, Jan 22 '13 at 18:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '13 at 04:40

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So the problem was a bad vsd file.

answered Jan 23 '13 at 04:40

Bdloul

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