coverity#1326177 Explicit null dereferenced

Change-Id: I3981037c8383aff65c8b78eb4752c11ddeffc8fd

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/qadevOOo/runner/util/utils.java b/qadevOOo/runner/util/utils.java
index 05b9852c70da..dc1b63c9c9bf 100644
--- a/qadevOOo/runner/util/utils.java
+++ b/qadevOOo/runner/util/utils.java
@@ -240,15 +240,13 @@ public class utils {
         String settingPath = null;
         try {
             Object settings = msf.createInstance("com.sun.star.comp.framework.PathSettings");
-            XPropertySet pthSettings = null;
             try {
-                pthSettings = (XPropertySet) AnyConverter.toObject(
+                XPropertySet pthSettings = (XPropertySet) AnyConverter.toObject(
                     new Type(XPropertySet.class), settings);
+                settingPath = (String) pthSettings.getPropertyValue(setting);
             } catch (com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException iae) {
                 System.out.println("### couldn't get Office Settings");
             }
-            settingPath = (String) pthSettings.getPropertyValue(setting);
-
         } catch (Exception e) {
             System.out.println("Couldn't get string value for " + setting);
             e.printStackTrace();
@@ -256,8 +254,6 @@ public class utils {
         return settingPath;
     }
 
-
-
     /**
      * This method returns the temp dicrectory of the user.
      * Since Java 1.4 it is not possible to read environment variables. To workaround