From 27e1e81eb1663869490b6a6a46a7b177e1674da8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Desharnais <martin.desharnais@posteo.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:26:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Return null on illegal field acces

issue #940
---
 .../github/jknack/handlebars/context/FieldValueResolver.java  | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/handlebars/src/main/java/com/github/jknack/handlebars/context/FieldValueResolver.java b/handlebars/src/main/java/com/github/jknack/handlebars/context/FieldValueResolver.java
index 1b7786727..f87acf18c 100644
--- a/handlebars/src/main/java/com/github/jknack/handlebars/context/FieldValueResolver.java
+++ b/handlebars/src/main/java/com/github/jknack/handlebars/context/FieldValueResolver.java
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ public boolean matches(final FieldWrapper field, final String name) {
   protected Object invokeMember(final FieldWrapper field, final Object context) {
     try {
       return field.get(context);
+    } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
+      System.err.println("Illegal access to field '" + field.getName() +
+        "'. Returning null instead.");
+      return null;
     } catch (Exception ex) {
       throw new IllegalStateException(
           "Shouldn't be illegal to access field '" + field.getName()