feat: check for `arg_val` if not `nullptr`

Signed-off-by: Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal@nekernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/JSONManifestBuilder.cc b/src/JSONManifestBuilder.cc
index 46a8518..50850f5 100644
--- a/src/JSONManifestBuilder.cc
+++ b/src/JSONManifestBuilder.cc
@@ -14,11 +14,16 @@ using namespace BTB;
 /// @brief Builds a JSON target from a JSON file.
 /// @param arg_sz filename size (must be 1 or greater).
 /// @param arg_val filename path (must be a valid JSON file).
-/// @retval true succeeded building.
+/// @retval true building has succeeded.
 /// @retval false fail to build, see error message.
 bool JSONManifestBuilder::buildTarget(int arg_sz, const char* arg_val, const bool dry_run) {
   String path;
 
+  if (!arg_val) {
+    BTB::Logger::info() << "btb: error: file path is empty" << std::endl;
+    return false;
+  }
+
   if (arg_sz < 0) {
     BTB::Logger::info() << "btb: error: file path is empty" << std::endl;
     return false;