From 2ac690b40547d8bb7ab11e2c4884ece5f5f846b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: peter <peter@jetbrains.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:10:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] serialization NPE: more diagnostics

---
 .../src/com/intellij/util/xmlb/AccessorBindingWrapper.java    | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/platform/util/src/com/intellij/util/xmlb/AccessorBindingWrapper.java b/platform/util/src/com/intellij/util/xmlb/AccessorBindingWrapper.java
index a64eec817a65..2e5d0ae008ae 100644
--- a/platform/util/src/com/intellij/util/xmlb/AccessorBindingWrapper.java
+++ b/platform/util/src/com/intellij/util/xmlb/AccessorBindingWrapper.java
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ class AccessorBindingWrapper implements Binding {
 
   public Object serialize(Object o, Object context, SerializationFilter filter) {
     Object value = myAccessor.read(o);
-    assert value != null : "Property " + myAccessor + " of object " + o + " must not be null";
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new XmlSerializationException("Property " + myAccessor + " of object " + o + " (" + o.getClass() + ") must not be null");
+    }
     return myBinding.serialize(value, context, filter);
   }