From 88c146004cdce732ad99b86c2b820cb0c81ae152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sadilchamishka <sandilchamishka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 13:50:37 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix possible NPE

---
 src/main/java/org/wso2/scim2/util/SCIMDecoder.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/wso2/scim2/util/SCIMDecoder.java b/src/main/java/org/wso2/scim2/util/SCIMDecoder.java
index d4ee3b3..b1d1c57 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/wso2/scim2/util/SCIMDecoder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/wso2/scim2/util/SCIMDecoder.java
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ public List<SCIMObject> decodeListedResource(String scimString, ResourceTypeSche
 
             //we expect this to be a non-empty JSONArray according to the format
             Object resources = decodedJsonObj.opt(SCIMConstants.ListedResourceSchemaConstants.RESOURCES);
-            scimObjects = new ArrayList<SCIMObject>();
+            scimObjects = new ArrayList<>();
+            if (resources == null) {
+                return scimObjects;
+            }
             decoder = new JSONDecoder();
             for (int i = 0; i < (((JSONArray) resources).length()); i++) {
                 Object object = ((JSONArray) resources).get(i);