On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:12 PM 'Alexander Mills' via golang-nuts <
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> does anyone know why calling the method would result in a nil pointer? To
> me it seems like the object for which the method is being called is nil
>
No, it is a pointer to a struct with two fields, both of which are nil. It
says `&{<nil> <nil>}`, not `<nil>`.
> var d = new(lib.UserAttributeDao)
>
You are initializing `d` to a pointer, pointing at the zero value of
`lib.UserAttributeDao` - which is a struct with two fields, I assume. So,
for the zero value, both of those are nil.
> x, err := d.GetDecryptedUserAttributes(""); // THIS RESULTS IN NIL POINTER
>
> if err != nil {
> log.Fatal(err)
> }
>
> }
>
>
> ....
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