provider/github: Remove unsafe ptr dereferencing #8512
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This was referenced Aug 28, 2016
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This is to prevent crashes as we've seen elsewhere, e.g. #8466
This is the first PR of many to remove any obvious and most visible anti-patterns used across all providers.
ResourceData.Set()is capable of safe dereferencing - i.e.nilchecking and even though the developer should know when a certain field/variable could containnil, it is still slightly better to end up in situation of unexpectedly empty field rather than a crash.A small, naive
guru+jqsnippet of code used to find suspect lines/resources/providers:https://gist.github.com/radeksimko/1a1a230647d3580c64a9dd66143e9e3b