ICS/IDS stitched file

Hi @ome team !

We usually use ICS/IDS file formats as an output to our stitching pipeline as the reading and writing is pretty fast. However, it seems that since Bio-Formats 7.x opening the files is not working anymore.

I tried with a Fiji with Bio-Formats 6.10.1 and the files open, but more recent versions give an issue.

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at loci.formats.in.ICSReader.initFile(ICSReader.java:1481)
	at loci.formats.FormatReader.setId(FormatReader.java:1480)
	at loci.plugins.in.ImportProcess.initializeFile(ImportProcess.java:498)
	at loci.plugins.in.ImportProcess.execute(ImportProcess.java:141)
	at loci.plugins.in.Importer.showDialogs(Importer.java:156)
	at loci.plugins.in.Importer.run(Importer.java:77)
	at loci.plugins.LociImporter.run(LociImporter.java:78)
	at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:244)
	at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:210)
	at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:152)
	at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:70)
	at ij.IJ.run(IJ.java:326)
	at ij.IJ.run(IJ.java:337)
	at ij.macro.Functions.doRun(Functions.java:703)
	at ij.macro.Functions.doFunction(Functions.java:99)
	at ij.macro.Interpreter.doStatement(Interpreter.java:281)
	at ij.macro.Interpreter.doStatements(Interpreter.java:267)
	at ij.macro.Interpreter.run(Interpreter.java:163)
	at ij.macro.Interpreter.run(Interpreter.java:93)
	at ij.macro.MacroRunner.run(MacroRunner.java:146)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)

You can find one example file at this link 1.

Thanks for your help !
Best,
Laurent