CID 160920: Null pointer dereferences (NULL_RETURNS)

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*** CID 160920: Null pointer dereferences (NULL_RETURNS)
/lightblue-rest/crud/src/main/java/com/redhat/lightblue/rest/crud/AbstractCrudResource.java: 108 in com.redhat.lightblue.rest.crud.AbstractCrudResource.getSearchesForEntity(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)()

102             FindRequest freq=new FindRequest();
103             freq.setEntityVersion(new EntityVersion(RestConfiguration.getSavedSearchCache().savedSearchEntity,
104                                                     RestConfiguration.getSavedSearchCache().savedSearchVersion));
105
106             try {
107                 freq.setProjection(projection==null?FieldProjection.ALL:Projection.fromJson(JsonUtils.json(QueryTemplateUtils.buildProjectionsTemplate(projection))));
>>>     CID 160920:  Null pointer dereferences  (NULL_RETURNS)
>>>     Dereferencing a pointer that might be null "com.redhat.lightblue.rest.util.QueryTemplateUtils.buildSortsTemplate(sort)" when calling "json".
108                 freq.setSort(sort==null?new SortKey(new com.redhat.lightblue.util.Path("name"),false):Sort.fromJson(JsonUtils.json(QueryTemplateUtils.buildSortsTemplate(sort))));
109             } catch (Exception e) {
110                 return Response.status(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR).entity(e.toString()).build();
111             }
112             CallStatus st=new FindCommand(freq.getEntityVersion().getEntity(),
113                                           freq.getEntityVersion().getVersion(),