From 44530d471710a228ded8302077af08a1f6ded86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Kuhr <harald.kuhr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:35:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Minor fix for possible NPE

---
 .../twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriteParam.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriteParam.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriteParam.java
index 4ed13ee6..2e63b293 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriteParam.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriteParam.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public final class TIFFImageWriteParam extends ImageWriteParam {
 
     static int getCompressionType(final ImageWriteParam param) {
         // TODO: Support mode COPY_FROM_METADATA (when we have metadata...)
-        if (param == null || param.getCompressionMode() != MODE_EXPLICIT || param.getCompressionType().equals("None")) {
+        if (param == null || param.getCompressionMode() != MODE_EXPLICIT || param.getCompressionType() == null || param.getCompressionType().equals("None")) {
             return TIFFBaseline.COMPRESSION_NONE;
         }
         else if (param.getCompressionType().equals("PackBits")) {