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poi 5.2.2 support

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing DOCX thumbnailing with the listed Apache POI 5.2.2 and thumbnails4j-all 1.0.0 dependencies, then trace the NoSuchMethodError and dependency compatibility. Done means .docx thumbnail generation works with the upgraded POI libraries without this runtime failure.

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Description

For other functionality to work and to remove vulnerabilities we've upgraded org.apache.poi libraries to 5.2.2. Now, when we try to thumbnail .docx files using this thumbnail library it fails with the following runtime error:
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'java.math.BigInteger org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTPageSz.getW()'
This is what I have in my pox.xml:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-ooxml-full</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-scratchpad</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>co.elastic.thumbnails4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>thumbnails4j-all</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
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