From abe4aae40049ca73fb29ccf325cc3734408d9aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muxi Yan <mxyan@google.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:21:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove length check in GRPCCall for backwards compatibility

---
 src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
index 44432a120ac..ca2cdd6b312 100644
--- a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
+++ b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/GRPCCall.m
@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ const char *kCFStreamVarName = "grpc_cfstream";
                   callSafety:(GRPCCallSafety)safety
               requestsWriter:(GRXWriter *)requestWriter
                  callOptions:(GRPCCallOptions *)callOptions {
-  if (host.length == 0 || path.length == 0) {
+  // Purposely using pointer rather than length ([host length] == 0) for backwards compatibility.
+  if (!host || !path) {
     [NSException raise:NSInvalidArgumentException
                 format:@"Neither host nor path can be nil or empty."];
   }