From 4908cbe6dc59907837d705149125629929759083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Lage <john.lage@jhuapl.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 17:05:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 67 move config validation to before lock file is acquired

---
 mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/MmtcCli.java | 1 +
 .../java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/TimeCorrelationApp.java     | 2 --
 .../edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/cfg/TimeCorrelationRunConfig.java    | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/MmtcCli.java b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/MmtcCli.java
index 75e2e96..c3a7534 100644
--- a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/MmtcCli.java
+++ b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/MmtcCli.java
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
         try {
             cfg = new MmtcConfig();
+            cfg.validate();
         } catch (Exception e) {
             logger.fatal("MMTC correlation initialization failed.");
             throw new MmtcException("MMTC correlation initialization failed.", e);
diff --git a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/TimeCorrelationApp.java b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/TimeCorrelationApp.java
index 3929a27..999a804 100644
--- a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/TimeCorrelationApp.java
+++ b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/app/TimeCorrelationApp.java
@@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ public TimeCorrelationApp(TimeCorrelationRunConfig config) throws MmtcException
      * the specified SPICE kernels. Load the SCLK kernel separately.
      */
     private void init() throws Exception {
-        config.validate();
-
         new BuiltInOutputProductMigrationManager(config).assertExistingProductsDoNotRequireMigration();
 
         logger.debug("Loading SPICE library");
diff --git a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/cfg/TimeCorrelationRunConfig.java b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/cfg/TimeCorrelationRunConfig.java
index e6ef496..c76ebf1 100644
--- a/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/cfg/TimeCorrelationRunConfig.java
+++ b/mmtc-core/src/main/java/edu/jhuapl/sd/sig/mmtc/cfg/TimeCorrelationRunConfig.java
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ public Map<String, TimeCorrelationFilter> getFilters() throws MmtcException {
     }
 
     public boolean isCreateUplinkCmdFile() {
-        if (this.runConfigInputs.isCreateUplinkCmdFile) {
+        if (this.runConfigInputs != null && this.runConfigInputs.isCreateUplinkCmdFile) {
             return true;
         }