Purpose

JIRA: https://jira.autodesk.com/browse/QNTM-4425
GH Issue: #8911

The crash occurs at the time of compilation of the custom node definition. It tries to build a return AST statement with the output from the code block node but since the code block output is null owing to the syntax error, an ArgumentNullException is thrown from the AstFactory.BuildReturnStatement, which apparently isn't caught anywhere and results in a crash. The fix is to build a NullNode if the rhs returned from the code block AST is null and then pass this NullNode as input to the BuildReturnStatement method to generate AST for a return = null; statement.

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• The code base is in a better state after this PR
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• The level of testing this PR includes is appropriate
• User facing strings, if any, are extracted into *.resx files
• All tests pass using the self-service CI.
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Reviewers

@mjkkirschner @QilongTang @ColinDayOrg

Adding a test case would be tricky here - it would be best to add a recordable test but I'm not sure if we can add these for a custom node workspace. Will check.