From 371c73fe60f63ef58abf814db76e8b2d7289800b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maxvetrenko <maxvetrenko2241@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:12:41 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NullPointerException in case package-info.java #326

---
 .../checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AtclauseOrderCheck.java    | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AtclauseOrderCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AtclauseOrderCheck.java
index 065ed7666..3688729c7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AtclauseOrderCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AtclauseOrderCheck.java
@@ -166,10 +166,13 @@ public class AtclauseOrderCheck extends AbstractJavadocCheck
      */
     private int getParentType(DetailAST aCommentBlock)
     {
+        int type = 0;
         final DetailAST parentNode = aCommentBlock.getParent();
-        int type = parentNode.getType();
-        if (type == TokenTypes.TYPE || type == TokenTypes.MODIFIERS) {
-            type = parentNode.getParent().getType();
+        if (parentNode != null) {
+            type = parentNode.getType();
+            if (type == TokenTypes.TYPE || type == TokenTypes.MODIFIERS) {
+                type = parentNode.getParent().getType();
+            }
         }
         return type;
     }