From fe3b843b657cf6f3f29f77a95abdd247477a32bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: asivache <asivache@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:56:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] intercept NullPointerException and rethrow it with
 (marginally) comprehensible error message when an attempt to get class source
 code location fails

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@854 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/JVMUtils.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/JVMUtils.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/JVMUtils.java
index 1033e1143..142deddaf 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/JVMUtils.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/JVMUtils.java
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ public class JVMUtils {
             // a URISyntaxException here must be an IO error; wrap as such.
             throw new IOException(ex);
         }
+        catch ( NullPointerException ne ) {
+        	throw new IOException("Can not extract code source location for "+clazz.getName());
+        }
     }
 
     /**