From e270a37bfa7707e2ba44b88c502f78e2d2189458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evolutioned <149912041+evolutioned@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:36:53 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Protect null tags on frontmatter

In my vault I get an uncaught exception from this line of code, where the tags is null.
---
 src/Scripting/TasksFile.ts | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Scripting/TasksFile.ts b/src/Scripting/TasksFile.ts
index 6426ac91a4..e48a818925 100644
--- a/src/Scripting/TasksFile.ts
+++ b/src/Scripting/TasksFile.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ export class TasksFile {
         const rawFrontmatter = cachedMetadata.frontmatter;
         if (rawFrontmatter !== undefined) {
             this._frontmatter = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(rawFrontmatter));
-            this._frontmatter.tags = parseFrontMatterTags(rawFrontmatter) ?? [];
+            // protect against null tags (happens in my vault)
+            if (this._frontmatter) {
+                this._frontmatter.tags = parseFrontMatterTags(rawFrontmatter) ?? [];
+            }
         }
 
         if (Object.keys(cachedMetadata).length !== 0) {