| Summary: | AbstractEscherHolderRecord may throw AccessControlException in WebStart apps | ||
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| Product: | POI | Reporter: | Andy Cooke <dj6v1s502> |
| Component: | HSSF | Assignee: | POI Developers List <dev> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 2.5-FINAL | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | other | ||
This is more of an RFE than bug (because you could just grant it privileges to read system properties). I suggest the below code could catch AccessControlException. Personally I don't like the use of system properties. I think we should have a seperate constructor. Our dev team has recently run into this same issue. In regards to the comment to "just grant it privileges to read system properties", this is not really an option for us. Due to our customers' restrictive IT environments, we do not have the option of modifying (or persisting) .policy files, with proper privileges granted, on the client. Thus, I'm curious to know if/when this bug may be resolved. Possibly in the next 6-12 months? Try the latest POI-3.5-beta4. If the problem persists, re-open this bug and attach the problem file and sample code to reproduce the problem. Yegor I examined the code and the suggested solution was taken. svn blame is: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=566183 Author: nick Date: Wed Aug 15 14:19:08 2007 UTC (18 months ago) Log Message: Patch from bug #43108 - when fetching system properties, use sensible defaults if we're not able to access them *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43108 *** |
org.apache.poi.hssf.record.AbstractEscherHolderRecord can cause exceptions in WebStart applications without sufficient privileges: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission poi.deserialize.escher read) Possible fix to catch the exception: private static boolean DESERIALISE; static { try { DESERIALISE = System.getProperty("poi.deserialize.escher") != null; } catch (Exception e) { DESERIALISE = false; } }