From 14fe621ee60d9b527d9ec6b26239009987bbc10b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: francoismichel <francois.michel@uclouvain.be>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:20:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make generic SyncMap with with actually any type (#116)

The SyncMap genreic type does not work with non-nilable types, as the nil value returned by sync.Map cannot be converted to the V generic type. Replace nil by the zero value if that's the case.
---
 util/util.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/util.go b/util/util.go
index 3636670..d163dfe 100644
--- a/util/util.go
+++ b/util/util.go
@@ -335,6 +335,11 @@ func NewSyncMap[K comparable, V any]() SyncMap[K, V] {
 
 func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Get(key K) (V, bool) {
 	val, ok := m.inner.Load(key)
+	if val == nil {
+		// we can't return nil for *any* type, so we create a zero value for the type and return it, instead of nil
+		var zero V
+		return zero, ok
+	}
 	return val.(V), ok
 }