From 1a9d040ea4711ef817320d0d096ba57e7ea25540 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:33:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Support Elem on lists

---
 decoder.go    |  4 ++++
 hcl/object.go | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/decoder.go b/decoder.go
index 0127c37..2534f47 100644
--- a/decoder.go
+++ b/decoder.go
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ func (d *decoder) decodeMap(name string, o *hcl.Object, result reflect.Value) er
 	// Go through each element and decode it.
 	current := o
 	for current != nil {
+		if current.Value == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		m := current.Value.([]*hcl.Object)
 		for _, o := range m {
 			// Make the field name
diff --git a/hcl/object.go b/hcl/object.go
index 3c321db..aa58081 100644
--- a/hcl/object.go
+++ b/hcl/object.go
@@ -69,12 +69,14 @@ func (o *Object) Elem(expand bool) []*Object {
 		return result
 	}
 
-	switch o.Type {
-	case ValueTypeObject:
-		if o.Value == nil {
-			return nil
-		}
+	if o.Value == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
 
+	switch o.Type {
+	case ValueTypeList:
+		return o.Value.([]*Object)
+	case ValueTypeObject:
 		return o.Value.([]*Object)
 	}