Avoid null pointers if the DOM is not yet valid

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java b/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
index b143e4c..1b9a696 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ public class Outcome implements C2KLocalObject {
     }

     

     public String getField(String name) {

+    	if (getDOM() == null) return null;

+    	if (getDOM().getDocumentElement() == null) return null;

     	 NodeList elements = getDOM().getDocumentElement().getElementsByTagName(name);

     	 if (elements.getLength() == 1 && elements.item(0).hasChildNodes() && elements.item(0).getFirstChild() instanceof Text)

     		 return ((Text)elements.item(0).getFirstChild()).getData();