I use Tabula (java) to extract tables contained in pdf files. After obtaining a list of tables I use the Gson class to realize this list. However, the following exception is thrown.
Table extraction and serelization
List<Table> tables = new PDFTableExtractor(document).extract(page);
new Gson().toJson(tables);
Exception thrown
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: jdk.internal.ref.PhantomCleanable<?> declares multiple JSON fields named next
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:172)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.createBoundField(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:117)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:166)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.createBoundField(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:117)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:166)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.createBoundField(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:117)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:166)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.createBoundField(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:117)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:166)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.createBoundField(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:117)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.getBoundFields(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:166)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.create(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:102)
at com.google.gson.Gson.getAdapter(Gson.java:458)
I'm using the Table class from the Tabula library. The class contains the following attributes:
private final String extractionMethod;
private int rowCount = 0;
private int colCount = 0;
private List<List<RectangularTextContainer>> memoizedRows = null;
/* visible for testing */ final TreeMap<CellPosition, RectangularTextContainer> cells = new TreeMap<>();
(maintainer of tabula-java
here)
The library already implements serialization with Gson. Take a look at TableSerializer