Nil results with no error about geo-golang HOT 6 CLOSED

I just looked at the updated example code in the description and it looks like we can get a nil result. I'm not sure if it's idiomatic to return a nil result without an error. Is it possible to update to provide an error in these cases so we can check for that instead of a nil result?

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Hi, this was one of the proposed changes in #29 (have a look at the list at the bottom). One of the points being that no results shouldn't be an error. Have a go yourself and try one of the providers, which return an error (few of them do, not all though) and send a request with the same vector directly to see that they also don't return an error. Thus the proposal to return a pointer to the structure instead of zero value to be able to distinguish no result cases. So returning nil, nil implies that no results have been found. To finish off, I'd claim that returning a nil pointer is idiomatic go - similar to returning... say null in Java.

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ok makes sense, will update accordingly.

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I'm using github.com/codingsince1985/geo-golang/google package and it is also may returns nil result with no error

addr, err := geoCoder.ReverseGeocode(lt, lg)

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@varentsov, what's the lat, lng?

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lat=51.729729729729726, lng=55.06887992842546
lat=5, lng=0

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