fix: handle nothing passed as u0 to ODEProblem

fix: handle non-vector non-symbolic array u0 for ODEProblem

Author: AayushSabharwal

src/systems/diffeqs/abstractodesystem.jl

@@ -816,12 +816,14 @@ function process_DEProblem(constructor, sys::AbstractODESystem, u0map, parammap;
        (((implicit_dae || !isempty(missingvars) || !isempty(setobserved)) &&
          ModelingToolkit.get_tearing_state(sys) !== nothing) ||
         !isempty(initialization_equations(sys))) && t !== nothing
+
         if eltype(u0map) <: Number
-            u0map = unknowns(sys) .=> u0map
+            u0map = unknowns(sys) .=> vec(u0map)
         end
-        if isempty(u0map)
+        if u0map === nothing || isempty(u0map)
             u0map = Dict()
         end
+
         initializeprob = ModelingToolkit.InitializationProblem(
             sys, t, u0map, parammap; guesses, warn_initialize_determined,
             initialization_eqs, eval_expression, eval_module, fully_determined, check_units)

test/odesystem.jl

@@ -1387,3 +1387,10 @@ end
 
     @test obsfn(ones(2), 2ones(2), 3ones(4), 4.0) == 6ones(2)
 end
+
+@testset "Passing `nothing` to `u0`" begin
+    @variables x(t) = 1
+    @mtkbuild sys = ODEProblem(D(x) ~ t, t)
+    prob = @test_nowarn ODEProblem(sys, nothing, (0.0, 1.0))
+    @test_nowarn solve(prob)
+end