StackOverflow on documents with nested fields

[kwh46]

Hi,

I've hit an issue when using Docx4J to manipulate a user's document that had a nested merge field in it. From what I can see, it looks like

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FieldRef::getFldName()

will keep calling itself when it encounters at least some types of nested merge fields. It is this line in particular -

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log.error("Nested field " + nested.getFldName());

. It reliably causes a StackOverflowError.

Are there any plans/timescales to fix this? I understand that nested fields are not supported so it's all about the StackOverflowError (for me at least). If it helps, I've uploaded a docx that demonstrates the issue.