Update curated model argument in ValidateClusterAPIs()

Author: deliahu

pkg/operator/resources/validations.go

@@ -102,8 +102,7 @@ func ValidateClusterAPIs(apis []userconfig.API, projectFiles spec.ProjectFiles)
 	for i := range apis {
 		api := &apis[i]
 		if api.Kind == userconfig.RealtimeAPIKind || api.Kind == userconfig.BatchAPIKind {
-			models := []spec.CuratedModelResource{}
-			if err := spec.ValidateAPI(api, &models, projectFiles, config.Provider, config.AWS, config.GCP, config.K8s); err != nil {
+			if err := spec.ValidateAPI(api, nil, projectFiles, config.Provider, config.AWS, config.GCP, config.K8s); err != nil {
 				return errors.Wrap(err, api.Identify())
 			}
 			if err := validateK8s(api, virtualServices, maxMem); err != nil {

pkg/types/spec/validations.go

@@ -702,6 +702,11 @@ func ValidateAPI(
 	k8sClient *k8s.Client, // will be nil for local provider
 ) error {
 
+	// if models is nil, we need to set it to an empty slice to avoid nil pointer exceptions
+	if models == nil {
+		models = &[]CuratedModelResource{}
+	}
+
 	if provider != types.LocalProviderType && api.Networking.Endpoint == nil {
 		api.Networking.Endpoint = pointer.String("/" + api.Name)
 	}