From 3fac1f93347ade5faa14c3f1c3fb2fd3d9b9e5bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Soares <b.soares@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 16:48:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-3599 Deliberate NPE to see if build plan fails

---
 src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
index 2dfe820..1a21006 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
@@ -626,6 +626,10 @@ public class Desktop extends jalview.jbgui.GDesktop
 
     if (Platform.isJS())
     {
+      // emulate a problem
+      String a = null;
+      int l = a.length();
+
       // used for jalviewjsTest
       jalview.bin.Console.info("JALVIEWJS: CREATED DESKTOP");
     }
-- 
1.7.10.2