X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.onap.org/r/gitweb?p=policy%2Fengine.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=PolicyEngineUtils%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Forg%2Fonap%2Fpolicy%2Futils%2FPolicyUtils.java;h=c058a79971b56e234b6dc28601c45f5cf71386ab;hp=fa23f4a310f116043872cc30fecda980c25ffa5d;hb=1148834bc4b10d00c1b1830b087357e63af8293f;hpb=066fc4529f36d210a4a4700e8dbfd2cb42f4dc66

diff --git a/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java b/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
index fa23f4a31..c058a7997 100644
--- a/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
+++ b/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
 
 public class PolicyUtils {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = FlexLogger.getLogger(PolicyUtils.class);
-    
+    public static final String CATCH_EXCEPTION = "PE500: An exception was caught.";  
     public static final String EMAIL_PATTERN =
             "^[_A-Za-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@"
             + "[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$";
     private static final String PACKAGE_ERROR = "mismatched input '{' expecting one of the following tokens: '[package";
-    private static final String SUCCESS = "success";
+    public static final String SUCCESS = "success";
     
     private PolicyUtils(){
         // Private Constructor
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ public class PolicyUtils {
      * @return
      */
     public static boolean isXMLValid(String data) {
+    	if(data == null || data.isEmpty()){
+        	return false;
+        }
         SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
         factory.setValidating(false);
         factory.setNamespaceAware(true);