Check the node Add operator's type property before attempting to create a new node. This prevents python exceptions when calling it from the search menu, where the node type is unspecified.

Reported by Sebastian Koenig in unrelated bug report #36968.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/node.py b/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/node.py
index 9b629c3f976..77978c71ed9 100644
--- a/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/node.py
+++ b/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/node.py
@@ -113,8 +113,11 @@ class NodeAddOperator():
 
     # Default execute simply adds a node
     def execute(self, context):
-        self.create_node(context)
-        return {'FINISHED'}
+        if self.properties.is_property_set("type"):
+            self.create_node(context)
+            return {'FINISHED'}
+        else:
+            return {'CANCELLED'}
 
     # Default invoke stores the mouse position to place the node correctly
     # and optionally invokes the transform operator