From 2a9c75c5bab980027636a02eb0d18e8624fdb867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kiran <kiran@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:08:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Throw an exception if the programmer tries to access a column
 that doesn't exist.

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@5902 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 .../org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/report/GATKReportTable.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/report/GATKReportTable.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/report/GATKReportTable.java
index cbb794df0..0e503f92a 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/report/GATKReportTable.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/report/GATKReportTable.java
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ public class GATKReportTable {
      * @param columnName  the name of the column
      */
     private void verifyEntry(Object primaryKey, String columnName) {
+        if (!columns.containsKey(columnName)) {
+            throw new ReviewedStingException("Attempted to access column '" + columnName + "' that does not exist in table '" + tableName + "'.");
+        }
+
         primaryKeyColumn.add(primaryKey);
 
         if (!columns.get(columnName).containsKey(primaryKey)) {