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500 on autoparse servlet after loading empty project?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the autoParse servlet request for projectID 7227 and folioNumber 13251864, then trace how ClassicProjectFromManifest loads the external IIIF project before transcription.html reaches that request. Reproduce the 500 response and identify the failing empty-project case; done means the request no longer returns a 500 for this scenario.

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Description

http://t-pen.org/TPEN/autoParse?projectID=7227&folioNumber=13251864 (500)

This is the first recorded error I see on transcription.html after using ClassicProjectFromManifest to load a IIIF project from an external source.

This relates to the Glossing Matthew Project, but I think this is a weird thing in general.

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Java
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Forks
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