JAL-2523 basic sleep and retry (3 times) on 429 response code with

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ext / ensembl / EnsemblLookup.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblLookup.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblLookup.java
index eb8f90e..6483401 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblLookup.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblLookup.java
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ public class EnsemblLookup extends EnsemblRestClient
       {
         br = getHttpResponse(url, ids);
       }
-      return (parseResponse(br));
+      return br == null ? null : parseResponse(br);
     } catch (IOException e)
     {
       // ignore