🐛 [reflection] Fix panic in IsEmpty when dealing with nil pointer

.secrets.baseline

@@ -265,5 +265,5 @@
       }
     ]
   },
-  "generated_at": "2025-03-28T11:37:49Z"
+  "generated_at": "2025-03-28T15:30:43Z"
 }

changes/20250328152658.feature

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+:bug: `[reflection]` Fix panic in `IsEmpty` when dealing with nil pointer

utils/reflection/reflection.go

@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ func IsEmpty(value any) bool {
 		return len(strings.TrimSpace(valueStr)) == 0
 	}
 	if valueStrPtr, ok := value.(*string); ok {
+		if valueStrPtr == nil {
+			return true
+		}
 		return len(strings.TrimSpace(*valueStrPtr)) == 0
 	}
 	if valueBool, ok := value.(bool); ok {

utils/reflection/reflection_test.go

@@ -428,6 +428,14 @@ func TestIsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
 			isEmpty:                true,
 			differsFromAssertEmpty: true,
 		},
+		{
+			value:   (*string)(nil),
+			isEmpty: true,
+		},
+		{
+			value:   field.ToOptionalString(""),
+			isEmpty: true,
+		},
 		{
 			value:                  field.ToOptionalString("                                   "),
 			isEmpty:                true,