You might want to use `Printf("the dao: %+v", dao)`, for example - it will
also print type-names and should make it more obvious what you have.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:16 PM Axel Wagner <axel.wagner...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:12 PM 'Alexander Mills' via golang-nuts <
> golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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