pdf-rs
Panics with invalid date
Attached is a reproducible test case with it panicking within the following method:
impl Object for Date {
fn from_primitive(p: Primitive, r: &impl Resolve) -> Result<Self> {}
}
With the following date:
2/10/2024 19:54:36
Ideally it shouldn't bail if there is an invalid date but maybe render a blank string.
It returns an Error which is correct, because this is not a valid PDF file.
2/10/2024 19:54:36 is not a valid date.
Check 7.9.4 of PDF32000.
Date values used in a PDF shall conform to a standard date format, which closely follows that of the international standard ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One), defined in ISO/IEC 8824. A date shall be a text string of the form ( D : YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH ' mm )`
Just encountered this today. While it's true that it's not standard, it's also rather common in the wild. I checked with bank statement PDFs from four different banks and pdf-rs panicked on the date on every one. Is it out-of-scope of this project to make the parser more lenient? (Generation can be strict to the standard, sure).
@yutotakano You are welcome to make a PR that changes the behavior to a simple String wrapper with a function to try and extract the date.