From 140574f54edc4ff4afab70918af9d2b783570656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruben Bermudez <rberlopez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 02:18:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #578

---
 .../org/telegram/telegrambots/meta/api/objects/Message.java    | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/telegrambots-meta/src/main/java/org/telegram/telegrambots/meta/api/objects/Message.java b/telegrambots-meta/src/main/java/org/telegram/telegrambots/meta/api/objects/Message.java
index d4b7b377..d0f6f3e6 100644
--- a/telegrambots-meta/src/main/java/org/telegram/telegrambots/meta/api/objects/Message.java
+++ b/telegrambots-meta/src/main/java/org/telegram/telegrambots/meta/api/objects/Message.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import org.telegram.telegrambots.meta.api.objects.payments.Invoice;
 import org.telegram.telegrambots.meta.api.objects.payments.SuccessfulPayment;
 import org.telegram.telegrambots.meta.api.objects.stickers.Sticker;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
@@ -282,7 +283,7 @@ public class Message implements BotApiObject {
     }
 
     public List<User> getNewChatMembers() {
-        return newChatMembers;
+        return newChatMembers == null ? new ArrayList<>() : newChatMembers;
     }
 
     public User getLeftChatMember() {