fixes issue with slice of nil pointers (#144)

fixes panic in case of marshaling of slice of nils like `[]*<SomeType>{nil, nil}`

Author: ejilay

response.go

@@ -207,9 +207,13 @@ func visitModelNode(model interface{}, included *map[string]*Node,
 	node := new(Node)
 
 	var er error
+	value := reflect.ValueOf(model)
+	if value.IsNil() {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
 
-	modelValue := reflect.ValueOf(model).Elem()
-	modelType := reflect.ValueOf(model).Type().Elem()
+	modelValue := value.Elem()
+	modelType := value.Type().Elem()
 
 	for i := 0; i < modelValue.NumField(); i++ {
 		structField := modelValue.Type().Field(i)

response_test.go

@@ -37,6 +37,36 @@ func TestMarshalPayload(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestMarshalPayloadWithNulls(t *testing.T) {
+
+	books := []*Book{nil, {ID:101}, nil}
+	var jsonData map[string]interface{}
+
+
+	out := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
+	if err := MarshalPayload(out, books); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(out.Bytes(), &jsonData); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	raw, ok := jsonData["data"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("data key does not exist")
+	}
+	arr, ok := raw.([]interface{})
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("data is not an Array")
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < len(arr); i++ {
+		if books[i] == nil && arr[i] != nil ||
+			books[i] != nil && arr[i] == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("restored data is not equal to source")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestMarshal_attrStringSlice(t *testing.T) {
 	tags := []string{"fiction", "sale"}
 	b := &Book{ID: 1, Tags: tags}