From 87d017e3abb92613015dce539b3ad8d9253574c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregorius Soedharmo <arkatufus@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:09:05 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix `.WithShardedDaemonProcess<T>()` throws
 NullReferenceException (#522)

---
 src/Akka.Cluster.Hosting/ClusterDaemonOptions.cs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Akka.Cluster.Hosting/ClusterDaemonOptions.cs b/src/Akka.Cluster.Hosting/ClusterDaemonOptions.cs
index 8afcb0ec..127ca810 100644
--- a/src/Akka.Cluster.Hosting/ClusterDaemonOptions.cs
+++ b/src/Akka.Cluster.Hosting/ClusterDaemonOptions.cs
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ public sealed class ClusterDaemonOptions
     public string? Role { get; set; }
     public object? HandoffStopMessage { get; set; }
 
-    internal Config? ToHocon()
+    internal Config ToHocon()
     {
         return KeepAliveInterval is not null 
             ? $"akka.cluster.sharded-daemon-process.keep-alive-interval = {KeepAliveInterval.ToHocon()}" 
-            : null;
+            : Config.Empty;
     }
 }
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