From 8e5bb6fbdce0b2ca2d08a45534df2264db5e6b12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason <jason-zz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:36:16 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] BUG Fix : relObject() should return null if one of the node
 is null

---
 model/DataObject.php | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/model/DataObject.php b/model/DataObject.php
index 1ac147fcd..97ead6b6e 100644
--- a/model/DataObject.php
+++ b/model/DataObject.php
@@ -3069,8 +3069,11 @@ class DataObject extends ViewableData implements DataObjectInterface, i18nEntity
 			$relations = explode('.', $fieldName);
 			$fieldName = array_pop($relations);
 			foreach($relations as $relation) {
+				// Bail if the component is null
+				if(!$component) {
+					return null;
 				// Inspect $component for element $relation
-				if($component->hasMethod($relation)) {
+				} elseif($component->hasMethod($relation)) {
 					// Check nested method
 					$component = $component->$relation();
 				} elseif($component instanceof SS_List) {