From 795e143b57cb809c1b8ef823bb5bc8748885ae57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Hager <andy@mazebert.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:03:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NullPointerException when trying to close a non-existing
 response, for instance after a Socket Timeout

---
 src/main/java/net/avalara/avatax/rest/client/RestCall.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/avalara/avatax/rest/client/RestCall.java b/src/main/java/net/avalara/avatax/rest/client/RestCall.java
index 9dfccce..35a974b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/avalara/avatax/rest/client/RestCall.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/avalara/avatax/rest/client/RestCall.java
@@ -204,7 +204,10 @@ public T call() throws Exception {
         } finally {
             // Finally, log all the information related to request, response, error, etc
             logInfo(logObject);
-            response.close();
+
+            if (response != null) {
+                response.close();
+            }
         }
         return obj;
     }