From f665018c5b5019b2e129d772fbb494accf840f17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deyan Nenov <dnenov@archilizer.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:18:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] catching null return value (#14535)

- bug fix causing users with no votes to not be able to start Dynamo because of unhandled null exception
---
 src/DynamoPackages/PackageManagerClient.cs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/DynamoPackages/PackageManagerClient.cs b/src/DynamoPackages/PackageManagerClient.cs
index e793b06f993..96b5bd99984 100644
--- a/src/DynamoPackages/PackageManagerClient.cs
+++ b/src/DynamoPackages/PackageManagerClient.cs
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ internal List<string> UserVotes()
                 return pkgResponse.content;
             }, null);
 
-            return votes.has_upvoted;
+            return votes?.has_upvoted;
         }
 
         internal PackageManagerResult DownloadPackage(string packageId, string version, out string pathToPackage)