From 42e92a2af174d87655296d40abc978b94d8b6465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pouryafard75 <pouryafard75@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:41:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ASTDiff: Fixes
 https://github.com/tsantalis/RefactoringMiner/issues/836

---
 .../astDiff/matchers/wrappers/RefactoringMatcher.java         | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/refactoringminer/astDiff/matchers/wrappers/RefactoringMatcher.java b/src/main/java/org/refactoringminer/astDiff/matchers/wrappers/RefactoringMatcher.java
index 3f15ecca1f..0eead4b475 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/refactoringminer/astDiff/matchers/wrappers/RefactoringMatcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/refactoringminer/astDiff/matchers/wrappers/RefactoringMatcher.java
@@ -235,12 +235,14 @@ private void processRefactorings(Tree srcTree, Tree dstTree, List<Refactoring> r
                         break;
                     case PARAMETERIZE_VARIABLE:
                         eligible = !renameVariableRefactoring.isInsideExtractedOrInlinedMethod();
+
                         if (!eligible)
                             break;
-                        while (!TreeUtilFunctions.isStatement(srcInput.getType().name)) {
+                        while (srcInput != null && !TreeUtilFunctions.isStatement(srcInput.getType().name)) {
                             if (srcInput.getType() == null) break;
                             srcInput = srcInput.getParent();
                         }
+                        if (srcInput == null) return;
                         if (TreeUtilFunctions.isStatement(srcInput.getType().name)){
                             new LeafMatcher().match(srcInput,dstInput,mappingStore);
                         }