From 84d22751d88c781ea9f2c9fbbacfeb032e9626f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Joshua M. Boniface" <joshua@boniface.me>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 09:43:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bad JSON data handler

---
 daemon-common/node.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/daemon-common/node.py b/daemon-common/node.py
index d0cb9164..daa35ecd 100644
--- a/daemon-common/node.py
+++ b/daemon-common/node.py
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@ def getNodeInformation(zkhandler, node_name):
         zkhandler, node_name, node_health_plugins
     )
 
-    node_network_stats = json.loads(_node_network_stats)
+    if _node_network_stats is not None:
+        node_network_stats = json.loads(_node_network_stats)
+    else:
+        node_network_stats = dict()
 
     # Construct a data structure to represent the data
     node_information = {