From 20eda41f88a21745a1fc7865645443b0f67bf1d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Randolph Phillips <drp227@cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 09:19:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [BI-2104] protect against null pointer exception

---
 .../importer/services/processors/ExperimentProcessor.java    | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/breedinginsight/brapps/importer/services/processors/ExperimentProcessor.java b/src/main/java/org/breedinginsight/brapps/importer/services/processors/ExperimentProcessor.java
index 45d26f7cb..062857af7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/breedinginsight/brapps/importer/services/processors/ExperimentProcessor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/breedinginsight/brapps/importer/services/processors/ExperimentProcessor.java
@@ -1175,7 +1175,10 @@ private PendingImportObject<BrAPIObservationUnit> fetchOrCreateObsUnitPIO(Progra
     }
 
     boolean isTimestampMatched(String observationHash, String timeStamp) {
-        OffsetDateTime priorStamp = existingObsByObsHash.get(observationHash).getObservationTimeStamp();
+        OffsetDateTime priorStamp = null;
+        if(existingObsByObsHash.get(observationHash)!=null){
+            priorStamp = existingObsByObsHash.get(observationHash).getObservationTimeStamp();
+        }
         if (priorStamp == null) {
             return timeStamp == null;
         }