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-rw-r--r--include/qpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh4
-rw-r--r--libqpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.cc6
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh
index 8f4f2039..2c22a5da 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh
+++ b/include/qpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ class QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper: public QPDFDocumentHelper
// field dictionary, the underlying object will be the same, but
// this is not always the case. Note that if you call this method
// with an annotation that is not a widget annotation, there will
- // not be an associated field, and this method will raise an
- // exception.
+ // not be an associated field, and this method will return a
+ // helper associated with a null object (isNull() == true).
QPDF_DLL
QPDFFormFieldObjectHelper
getFieldForAnnotation(QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper);
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.cc
index ea12f656..0fcc81f6 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.cc
@@ -70,16 +70,14 @@ QPDFFormFieldObjectHelper
QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper::getFieldForAnnotation(QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper h)
{
QPDFObjectHandle oh = h.getObjectHandle();
+ QPDFFormFieldObjectHelper result(QPDFObjectHandle::newNull());
if (! (oh.isDictionary() &&
oh.getKey("/Subtype").isName() &&
(oh.getKey("/Subtype").getName() == "/Widget")))
{
- throw std::logic_error(
- "QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper::getFieldForAnnotation called for"
- " non-/Widget annotation");
+ return result;
}
analyze();
- QPDFFormFieldObjectHelper result(QPDFObjectHandle::newNull());
QPDFObjGen og(oh.getObjGen());
if (this->m->annotation_to_field.count(og))
{