From f2e93f2cfd43077e5b73b1ff90c08d096a8fadab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cherian Mathew <c.mathew@bgbm.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:28:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added check for entity being null

---
 .../taxeditor/ui/section/AbstractCdmDetailElement.java          | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/section/AbstractCdmDetailElement.java b/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/section/AbstractCdmDetailElement.java
index 7d861c220..9d3a362b4 100644
--- a/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/section/AbstractCdmDetailElement.java
+++ b/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/section/AbstractCdmDetailElement.java
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractCdmDetailElement<T> extends AbstractCdmFormElement
     public void setEntity(T entity) {
         this.entity = entity;
         // the id is always 0 if the entity was not yet saved, so it is new in this case
-        if(StoreUtil.getCdmEntity(getEntity()).getId() == 0) {
+        if(getEntity() == null || StoreUtil.getCdmEntity(getEntity()).getId() == 0) {
             // new entity, not yet saved
             requiredCrud = EnumSet.of(CRUD.CREATE);
         } else {
-- 
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