From 8618a67e2e5a5ccfa58133389cc3c1093f8420bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luck <git@lucko.me>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:26:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix sponge config loading - closes #407

---
 .../java/me/lucko/luckperms/sponge/SpongeConfig.java     | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sponge/src/main/java/me/lucko/luckperms/sponge/SpongeConfig.java b/sponge/src/main/java/me/lucko/luckperms/sponge/SpongeConfig.java
index 602a6b938..10d735878 100644
--- a/sponge/src/main/java/me/lucko/luckperms/sponge/SpongeConfig.java
+++ b/sponge/src/main/java/me/lucko/luckperms/sponge/SpongeConfig.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
 import me.lucko.luckperms.common.config.AbstractConfiguration;
 
 import ninja.leaping.configurate.ConfigurationNode;
+import ninja.leaping.configurate.SimpleConfigurationNode;
 import ninja.leaping.configurate.commented.CommentedConfigurationNode;
 import ninja.leaping.configurate.hocon.HoconConfigurationLoader;
 import ninja.leaping.configurate.loader.ConfigurationLoader;
@@ -86,8 +87,16 @@ public class SpongeConfig extends AbstractConfiguration {
         Iterable<String> paths = Splitter.on('.').split(path);
         ConfigurationNode node = root;
 
+        if (node == null) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Config is not loaded.");
+        }
+
         for (String s : paths) {
             node = node.getNode(s);
+            
+            if (node == null) {
+                return SimpleConfigurationNode.root();
+            }
         }
 
         return node;