From 769b5ceb2eeb6d016b87f2605622c858ba913eea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:21:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix null pointer exception for sources which don't have any
 additional properties

---
 src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxyImpl.java |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxyImpl.java b/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxyImpl.java
index 10aaf7d..e3f5664 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxyImpl.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxyImpl.java
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ public abstract class DbSourceProxyImpl implements DbSourceProxy
    */
   public Hashtable getDbSourceProperties()
   {
+    if (props==null)
+    {
+      props = new Hashtable();
+    }
     return props;
   }
 
-- 
1.7.10.2