From 5a939ec108198be29f7127f425e9870b93fc5dd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Neuhaus <stefan@stefanneuhaus.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 20:00:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Provide proper error message in case the (default) property
 file is not available. Ran into this issue in combination with the Gradle
 daemon.

---
 .../main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java  | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dependency-check-utils/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java b/dependency-check-utils/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
index 359d24171..12b463e52 100644
--- a/dependency-check-utils/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
+++ b/dependency-check-utils/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
@@ -370,8 +370,11 @@ public final class Settings {
         try {
             in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(propertiesFilePath);
             props.load(in);
+        } catch (NullPointerException ex) {
+            LOGGER.error("Did not find settings file '{}'.", propertiesFilePath);
+            LOGGER.debug("", ex);
         } catch (IOException ex) {
-            LOGGER.error("Unable to load default settings.");
+            LOGGER.error("Unable to load settings from '{}'.", propertiesFilePath);
             LOGGER.debug("", ex);
         } finally {
             if (in != null) {