From b2ffd9b17391745ed6f08ed32dc50f9ec5f564b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarkS <marksvc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:42:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Remove a couple null-forgiving operators in MachineApiService

---
 src/SIL.XForge.Scripture/Services/MachineApiService.cs | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/SIL.XForge.Scripture/Services/MachineApiService.cs b/src/SIL.XForge.Scripture/Services/MachineApiService.cs
index 646476d46d3..e31ff16c32c 100644
--- a/src/SIL.XForge.Scripture/Services/MachineApiService.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.XForge.Scripture/Services/MachineApiService.cs
@@ -1529,10 +1529,9 @@ CancellationToken cancellationToken
         if (
             buildProjectEvent?.Payload?.TryGetValue("buildConfig", out BsonValue? buildConfigBson) == true
             && buildConfigBson != null
+            && JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<BuildConfig>(buildConfigBson.ToJson()) is { } buildConfig
         )
         {
-            BuildConfig buildConfig = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<BuildConfig>(buildConfigBson.ToJson())!;
-
             // Look up project snapshots for any referenced project IDs not already cached
             HashSet<string> referencedProjectIds =
             [
@@ -3453,7 +3452,7 @@ out SFProjectSecret? projectSecret
         }
 
         // Get the parallel corpus id
-        string? parallelCorpusId = projectSecret.ServalData!.ParallelCorpusIdForPreTranslate;
+        string? parallelCorpusId = projectSecret.ServalData?.ParallelCorpusIdForPreTranslate;
         if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(parallelCorpusId))
         {
             throw new DataNotFoundException("The parallel corpus ID cannot be found.");