Problem inserting/extracting attachments

Question

I have two LC sevices. One renders pdf forms using data, including attachments, from a DB. Once the user has updated such a form, it gets submitted to the other service. This one extracts the data, including attachments, and updates the DB. Basically the DB contains a bunch of identifiable objects which are accessible to the user through pdf forms.
When a user adds an attachment, or several, in Adobe Reader and submits the form to the second service, it works just fine. Rendering this particular object to pdf again also works fine.?? The attachments added in the previous "step" are included in the form and can be opened in Adobe Reader.
Problem:When a form contains attachments that have been added by our first service, some of them won't be extracted correctly and thus cannot be saved back into the DB. Mysteriously some attacments work just fine, even though all of them were added in the same way to the very same pdf form. In one case I have four jpg's attached to a form, 2 of which work and 2that don't.
Looking att the list var that contins tha extracted attachments I see that the ones that don't work look like this:...
and that's it. a single line. The ones that do work are much longer of course.
Even the ones that don't work can be opened just fine from Reader prior to being submitted to the service. In Reader, the only way to distinguish the attachments added by our first service is that they have timesamps in the description field.
Best Regards,
JMV

Answer 1

When i open the resulting pdf in Reader, all the attachments work just fine. I then add a fourth attachment, "Blue hills.jpg" in Reader and submit the form to our second service using a watched folder.<br /><br />This is what the attachments list var looks like after being extracted using the processFormSubmission service operation of the FormsService.<br /><br />Linebreaks and indentation added by me for clarity: <br /><br />[PID:-1] /process_data/attachmentsList - List: java.util.ArrayList:       Number of elements :4<br />{<br />1:<br /><document state="passive" senderVersion="0" persistent="false" <br /> senderPersistent="false" passivated="true" senderPassivated="false" <br /> deserialized="false" senderHostId="null" callbackId="0" <br /> senderCallbackId="0" callbackRef="null" isLocalizable="true" <br /> isTransactionBound="false" defaultDisposalTimeout="600" <br /> disposalTimeout="600" maxInlineSize="65536" <br /> defaultMaxInlineSize="65536" inlineSize="28521" <br /> contentType="null" length="-1"><br />     <cacheId/><br />     <localBackendId/><br />     <globalBackendId/><br />     <senderLocalBackendId/><br />     <senderGlobalBackendId/><br /><br />        "inline" element below has been edited due to <br />          unpostable characters.<br />     <inline>���ï¿...snip...FX Global Lightin...</inline><br />     <senderPullServantJndiName/><br />     <attributes <br />      modification-date="Wed Aug 04 13:00:00 CEST 2004"    <br />         creation-date="Wed Mar 18 21:42:57 CET 2009" <br />        description="" name="Blue hills.jpg"/><br /></document><br />2:<br /><document state="passive" senderVersion="0" persistent="false" <br /> senderPersistent="false" passivated="true" senderPassivated="false" <br /> deserialized="false" senderHostId="null" callbackId="0"  <br /> senderCallbackId="0" callbackRef="null" isLocalizable="true" <br /> isTransactionBound="false" defaultDisposalTimeout="600" <br /> disposalTimeout="600" maxInlineSize="65536" <br /> defaultMaxInlineSize="65536" inlineSize="0" <br /> contentType="null" length="-1"><br />     <cacheId/><br />     <localBackendId><br />          <DocumentFileID  <br />fileName="C:\TEMP\AdobeDocumentStorage\local\docm1237408627390\924c6476cba7c878e2c5d1ac 2ecf9b12"/><br />     <localBackendId/><br />     <globalBackendId/><br />     <senderLocalBackendId/><br />     <senderGlobalBackendId/><br />     <inline/><br />     <senderPullServantJndiName/><br />     <attributes <br />      modification-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      creation-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      description="" name="Winter.jpg"/><br /></document><br />3:<br /><document state="passive" senderVersion="0" persistent="false" <br /> senderPersistent="false" passivated="true" senderPassivated="false" <br /> deserialized="false" senderHostId="null" callbackId="0" <br /> senderCallbackId="0" callbackRef="null" isLocalizable="true" <br /> isTransactionBound="false" defaultDisposalTimeout="600"     <br /> disposalTimeout="600" maxInlineSize="65536" <br /> defaultMaxInlineSize="65536" inlineSize="0" <br /> contentType="null" length="-1"><br />     <cacheId/><br />     <localBackendId><br />          <DocumentFileID fileName="C:\TEMP\AdobeDocumentStorage\local\docm1237408627390\924c6476cba7c878e2c5d1ac2e cf9b12"/><br />     <localBackendId/><br />     <globalBackendId/><br />     <senderLocalBackendId/><br />        <senderGlobalBackendId/><br />        <inline/><br />        <senderPullServantJndiName/><br />     <attributes <br />      modification-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      creation-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      description="" name="Winter.jpg"/><br /></document><br />4:<br /><document state="passive" senderVersion="0" persistent="false" <br /> senderPersistent="false" passivated="true" senderPassivated="false" <br /> deserialized="false" senderHostId="null" callbackId="0" <br /> senderCallbackId="0" callbackRef="null" isLocalizable="true" <br /> isTransactionBound="false" defaultDisposalTimeout="600" <br /> disposalTimeout="600" maxInlineSize="65536" <br /> defaultMaxInlineSize="65536" inlineSize="0" <br /> contentType="null" length="-1"><br />     <cacheId/><br />     <localBackendId><br />          <DocumentFileID fileName="C:\TEMP\AdobeDocumentStorage\local\docm1237408627390\924c6476cba7c878e2c5d1ac2e cf9b12"/><br />     <localBackendId/><br />     <globalBackendId/><br />        <senderLocalBackendId/><br />        <senderGlobalBackendId/><br />        <inline/><br />        <senderPullServantJndiName/><br />     <attributes <br />      modification-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      creation-date="Wed Mar 18 21:37:27 CET 2009" <br />      description="" name="Winter.jpg"/><br /></document><br />}<br /><br />Notice how "Water lilies.jpg" and "Sunset.jpg" have turned into copies of "Winter.jpg"!<br /><br />Note:<br />Although it probably has nothing to to with my problem, it seems to me that Reader, or is it LC, generates xml that isn't well formed. Looks like the <localBackendId> is incorrectly terminated with <localBackendId/>. Something for adobe to look into?