From 5267cb8e059bc28eabed8a152ca24ef2a546236b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Turanski <dturanski_at_vmware_dot_com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:20:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added null check to AbstractRegionParser to support Spring 4
 Groovy BeanBuilder

---
 .../data/gemfire/config/AbstractRegionParser.java               | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AbstractRegionParser.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AbstractRegionParser.java
index 2856f47c..26cfd53d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AbstractRegionParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AbstractRegionParser.java
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ abstract class AbstractRegionParser extends AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser {
 	protected abstract Class<?> getRegionFactoryClass();
 
 	protected boolean isSubRegion(Element element) {
-		return element.getParentNode().getLocalName().endsWith("region");
+		return element.getParentNode().getLocalName() == null? false: element.getParentNode().getLocalName().endsWith("region");
 	}
 
 	@Override