From 5faa105791b48fa150223a070f43e0545b9cec6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Inteon <42113979+inteon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:10:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] revert adding check to make sure behavior is identical

Signed-off-by: Inteon <42113979+inteon@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 unmarshal.go | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unmarshal.go b/unmarshal.go
index 3694ce7..96c4c7a 100644
--- a/unmarshal.go
+++ b/unmarshal.go
@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ func jsonUnmarshal(reader io.Reader, obj interface{}, opts ...JSONOpt) error {
 // optionally performing the unmarshalling strictly
 func unmarshal(yamlBytes []byte, obj interface{}, unmarshalFn func([]byte, interface{}) error, opts ...JSONOpt) error {
 	jsonTarget := reflect.ValueOf(obj)
-	if jsonTarget.Kind() != reflect.Ptr || jsonTarget.IsNil() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("provided object is not a valid pointer")
-	}
 
 	jsonBytes, err := yamlToJSONTarget(yamlBytes, &jsonTarget, unmarshalFn)
 	if err != nil {