From 8173f37a48a91f794aeb70f7ea111cb26ba4f83e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:10:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix to safely deal with server exception resulting in
 null document

---
 src/jalview/ws/ebi/EBIFetchClient.java |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/ebi/EBIFetchClient.java b/src/jalview/ws/ebi/EBIFetchClient.java
index d5ab2e1..2a13baa 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/ebi/EBIFetchClient.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/ebi/EBIFetchClient.java
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ public class EBIFetchClient
     String[] data = fetchData(ids, f, s);
     // TODO: after JV 2.4 - test data==null and pass error(s) back up if
     // possible (OutOfMemoryErrors are usual problem)
+    if (data==null)
+    {
+      return null;
+    }
     File outFile = null;
     try
     {
@@ -137,7 +141,8 @@ public class EBIFetchClient
         index++;
       }
       out.close();
-    } catch (Exception ex)
+    }
+    catch (Exception ex)
     {
     }
     return outFile;
-- 
1.7.10.2