From 60b1775e37a4f72d89aa32a9cba0cb4650fed243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Nelson <matt.nelson@cerner.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:12:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Call populateSettings in CheckMojo#canGenerateReport to
 address NPE

---
 .../src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/maven/CheckMojo.java | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/dependency-check-maven/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/maven/CheckMojo.java b/dependency-check-maven/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/maven/CheckMojo.java
index 75b20e8e4..04d36feac 100644
--- a/dependency-check-maven/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/maven/CheckMojo.java
+++ b/dependency-check-maven/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/maven/CheckMojo.java
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public class CheckMojo extends BaseDependencyCheckMojo {
      */
     @Override
     public boolean canGenerateReport() {
+        populateSettings();
         boolean isCapable = false;
         for (Artifact a : getProject().getArtifacts()) {
             if (!getArtifactScopeExcluded().passes(a.getScope())) {