From 7ab4306c7837a8b0ee239b292bfd5503ec36b857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Klingenberg <352517+ktomk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 11:15:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix TypeError (#10904)

Fix string type requirement in case of NULL value:

    [TypeError]
    Composer\Command\InitCommand::parseAuthorString(): Argument #1 ($author) must be of type string, null given, called in phar:///composer.phar/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php on line 345
---
 src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php
index ae8bc6c9b..a463c31de 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ EOT
                     return;
                 }
                 $value = $value ?: $author;
-                $author = $this->parseAuthorString($value);
+                $author = $this->parseAuthorString($value ?? '');
 
                 if ($author['email'] === null) {
                     return $author['name'];