r.Recorder is nil. Observed a panic in reconciler: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[vladsf]

Bug Report

Hi, I followed the latest Go lang guide to create the sample memcached operator.
memcached_controller.go

but it fails when I try to delete the applied sample yaml.

.. Observed a panic in reconciler: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference ... internal/controller.(*MemcachedReconciler).doFinalizerOperationsForMemcached(0xc0000163f0, 0xc000462500)

somehow r.Recorder is nil. So line 299 fails

Is there way to fix this?

[harshvijaythakkar]

I think it is duplicate of #6681

[acornett21]

Closing as duplicate