Prevent NPE when using the deprecated getError accessor

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentapi/src/main/java/com/yahoo/documentapi/Result.java b/documentapi/src/main/java/com/yahoo/documentapi/Result.java
index d4426ed8c9d..6c83797cd89 100644
--- a/documentapi/src/main/java/com/yahoo/documentapi/Result.java
+++ b/documentapi/src/main/java/com/yahoo/documentapi/Result.java
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ public class Result {
      * @deprecated Will be removed on Vespa 8
      */
     @Deprecated(forRemoval = true, since="7")
-    public java.lang.Error getError() { return new java.lang.Error(error.getMessage()); }
+    public java.lang.Error getError() {
+        return error != null
+                ? new java.lang.Error(error.getMessage())
+                : null;
+    }
 
     public Error error() { return error; }