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the-rileyj/dsu-info-api: trojantimes/trojantimes.go; 28 LoC
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Found a possible issue in [the-rileyj/dsu-info-api](https://www.github.com/the-rileyj/dsu-info-api) at [trojantimes/trojantimes.go](https://github.com/the-rileyj/dsu-info-api/blob/c7cb0bb4da550284c507cbd6e0b0194702567906/trojantimes/trojantimes.go#L493-L520)
Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.
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[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/the-rileyj/dsu-info-api/blob/c7cb0bb4da550284c507cbd6e0b0194702567906/trojantimes/trojantimes.go#L493-L520)
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```go
for receivedTrojanTimesArticle := range getTrojanTimesArticlesChannel() {
err = db.First(&trojanTimesArticle, TrojanTimesArticle{URL: receivedTrojanTimesArticle.URL}).Error
if gorm.IsRecordNotFoundError(err) || (err == nil && trojanTimesArticle.LastModified != receivedTrojanTimesArticle.LastModified) {
// Establish the Article if it does not exist so that we can update it later
if gorm.IsRecordNotFoundError(err) {
db.Create(&receivedTrojanTimesArticle)
}
// send to request channel only after creating the article in the database;
// though extremely unlikely, if we swapped the order, the article could be
// updated before it is even created
articleRequestsChan <- receivedTrojanTimesArticle.URL
} else if err == nil {
// Check to see if any images have changed
for _, image := range receivedTrojanTimesArticle.Images {
err = db.First(&oldImage, ArticleImages{URL: receivedTrojanTimesArticle.URL}).Error
if gorm.IsRecordNotFoundError(err) {
db.Create(image)
} else if err == nil && image.LastModified != oldImage.LastModified {
db.Model(&oldImage).Updates(&image)
}
}
} else {
panic(err)
}
}
```
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```
No path was found through the callgraph that could lead to a function which writes a pointer argument.
No path was found through the callgraph that could lead to a function which passes a pointer to third-party code.
root signature {Create 1} was not found in the callgraph; reference was passed directly to third-party code
```
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commit ID: c7cb0bb4da550284c507cbd6e0b0194702567906
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