From df8c73b23ae0c3acde551b5805a99ca21d284997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Sharov <www.pismeco@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:09:09 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] improve null pointer panic message

---
 .gitignore          | 1 +
 orm/models_utils.go | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 482e34b1..39ae5706 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.idea
 .DS_Store
 *.swp
 *.swo
diff --git a/orm/models_utils.go b/orm/models_utils.go
index bf331fed..f58685d2 100644
--- a/orm/models_utils.go
+++ b/orm/models_utils.go
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ func getFieldType(val reflect.Value) (ft int, err error) {
 	case reflect.String:
 		ft = TypeCharField
 	default:
+		if elm == nil {
+			panic(fmt.Errorf("%s is nil pointer, may be miss setting tag", val))
+		}
 		switch elm.Interface().(type) {
 		case sql.NullInt64:
 			ft = TypeBigIntegerField