From cedfec763a6f84fc34a44eec65dba36897036a38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:46:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] jsonify needs to return a string of {}, rather than a dict

---
 lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
index 7ebe1962274..466fbb3f95e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def jsonify(result, format=False):
     ''' format JSON output (uncompressed or uncompressed) '''
 
     if result is None:
-        return {}
+        return "{}"
     result2 = result.copy()
     if format:
         return json.dumps(result2, sort_keys=True, indent=4)