JSON-RPC: "[error: Zotero.PDFRenderer is undefined"

[bassio]

Debug log ID

ZVC8WEV6-refs-apse/7.0.5

What happened?

Hello retorquere,

I access json rpc for the "attachments" function.

It gives me this error.

(3)(+0000002): {error: better-bibtex: <7.0.5 2IVYNMM8>} JSON-RPC: "[error: Zotero.PDFRenderer is undefined\nattachments@jar

It goes like this.

(3)(+0000002): Loaded collections in ENT in 12 ms

(3)(+0000001): Loading relations for 1 item in ENT

(4)(+0000001): SELECT itemID, predicate, object FROM items LEFT JOIN itemRelations USING (itemID) LEFT JOIN relationPredicates USING (predicateID) WHERE libraryID=? AND itemID IN (20197) [2]

(3)(+0000002): Loaded relations in ENT in 8 ms

(3)(+0000001): Loaded relations in ENT in 4 ms

(3)(+0000003): {error: better-bibtex: <7.0.2 Z97DC2C6>} JSON-RPC: "[error: Zotero.PDFRenderer is undefined\nattachments@jar:file:///C:/Users/ahmed/AppData/Roaming/Zotero/Zotero/Profiles/v9q2yly8.default/extensions/[email protected]!/content/better-bibtex.js:108885:23\n]"

(5)(+0000004): HTTP/1.0 200 OK X-Zotero-Version: 7.0.11 X-Zotero-Connector-API-Version: 2 Content-Type: application/json {"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32603,"message":"TypeError: Zotero.PDFRenderer is undefined"},"id":null}

I searched the codebase, this section might be the offending section.

zotero-better-bibtex/content/json-rpc.ts

Line 257 in 2ff972b

if (annot.annotationType === 'image') {

BTW I was able to ameliorate the bug via going to zotero and placing my cursor on the culprit PDF attachment (not the parent item) prior to fetching the attachments via json rpc.

Could it have something to do with generating that PDF thumbnail in the sidebar first?

Cheers

[bassio]

Just noticed that the offending PDF item had an "image annotation".

I have not confirmed that this bug only happens for PDFs that had marked image "screenshot" annotations, but looks highly likely it may be related to that.

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