From cb25fc03f9aad1a4a0bee1885b3c9dcf41e8c328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Long <jeremy.long@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:24:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added getActualFile() to return a file reference

Former-commit-id: 0c04828262c08a962766240275afb340293bd0dd
---
 .../org/owasp/dependencycheck/dependency/Dependency.java | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/dependency/Dependency.java b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/dependency/Dependency.java
index 6e0a10d60..74bc9502a 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/dependency/Dependency.java
+++ b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/dependency/Dependency.java
@@ -145,6 +145,15 @@ public class Dependency implements Comparable<Dependency> {
         return this.actualFilePath;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets a reference to the File object.
+     *
+     * @return the File object.
+     */
+    public File getActualFile() {
+        return new File(this.actualFilePath);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets the file path of the dependency.
      *