From 864807196cd45c9f369f6c4828c4b0cb5ba00f5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Long <jeremy.long@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:45:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] updated getFile to return null if property is not defined

Former-commit-id: b9373294be1860ecc0bbe0193fe2704f0678db69
---
 .../main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java    | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
index 9e1643353..516cca36d 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
+++ b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/Settings.java
@@ -265,6 +265,9 @@ public final class Settings {
      */
     public static File getFile(String key) {
         final String file = getString(key);
+        if (file == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
         return new File(file);
     }