From b6c7da66d3e3d3b7842e2b3b2da2900d21722f7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson <jackson@codecraft.nz>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:57:14 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] Adjust PhpTek\JSONText\ORM\FieldType\JSONText to supply array
 when value is empty

---
 code/ORM/FieldType/JSONText.php | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/ORM/FieldType/JSONText.php b/code/ORM/FieldType/JSONText.php
index 3cf6015..f56f6dd 100644
--- a/code/ORM/FieldType/JSONText.php
+++ b/code/ORM/FieldType/JSONText.php
@@ -250,15 +250,20 @@ public function toSSTypes(array $data)
      */
     public function toArray($value = null)
     {
+        $output = [];
         $value = $value ?: $this->getValue();
-        $decoded = json_decode($value, true);
 
-        if (is_null($decoded)) {
-            $msg = 'Decoded JSON is invalid.';
-            throw new JSONTextDataException($msg);
+        // Check for value
+        if (!empty($value)) {
+            $output = json_decode($value, true);
+
+            // Check for parse errors
+            if (JSON_ERROR_NONE !== json_last_error()) {
+                throw new JSONTextDataException('Unable to parse JSONText value into array: ' . json_last_error());
+            }
         }
 
-        return $decoded;
+        return $output;
     }
 
     /**