From d8d37fe406017fdfd753fd069c7208787a99318c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 0xNF <nflower@hpa-w7-df-vm2.basistech.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:56:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Decided to get catch exceptions in ModuleSettings instead of
 throwing them.

---
 .../autopsy/coreutils/ModuleSettings.java      | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CoreUtils/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/ModuleSettings.java b/CoreUtils/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/ModuleSettings.java
index 7397fed224..e960b0c3a7 100644
--- a/CoreUtils/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/ModuleSettings.java
+++ b/CoreUtils/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/ModuleSettings.java
@@ -113,13 +113,20 @@ public class ModuleSettings {
      * @return - the value associated with the setting.
      * @throws IOException 
      */
-    public static String getConfigSetting(String moduleName, String settingName) throws IOException{
+    public static String getConfigSetting(String moduleName, String settingName){
         if(configExists(moduleName)){
+            try{
             InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(getPropertyPath(moduleName));
             Properties props = new Properties();
             props.load(inputStream);
             inputStream.close();
             return props.getProperty(settingName);
+            }
+            
+           catch(IOException e){
+                Logger.getLogger(ModuleSettings.class.getName()).log(Level.WARNING, "Could not read config file [" + moduleName + "]", e);
+                return null;
+            }
 
         }
         else{ 
@@ -135,13 +142,15 @@ public class ModuleSettings {
      * @return - the map of all key:value pairs representing the settings of the config.
      * @throws IOException 
      */
-    public static Map< String, String> getConfigSettings(String moduleName) throws IOException {
+    public static Map< String, String> getConfigSettings(String moduleName) {
 
         if (configExists(moduleName)) {
+            try{
             InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(getPropertyPath(moduleName));
             Properties props = new Properties();
             props.load(inputStream);
             inputStream.close();
+            
 
             Set<String> keys = props.stringPropertyNames();
             Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
@@ -151,6 +160,11 @@ public class ModuleSettings {
             }
             
             return map;
+            }
+            catch(IOException e){
+                Logger.getLogger(ModuleSettings.class.getName()).log(Level.WARNING, "Could not read config file [" + moduleName + "]", e);
+                return null;
+            }
         } 
         else {
             makeConfigFile(moduleName);