X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.onap.org/r/gitweb?p=dmaap%2Fdatarouter.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=datarouter-prov%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Forg%2Fonap%2Fdmaap%2Fdatarouter%2Fprovisioning%2Futils%2FLOGJSONObject.java;h=1518859a91e726146fe4cdd4ed2176239ecfa8f1;hp=dec3cc136d3bf572322adb6b20e78b74eb42a793;hb=5ecbc83f99f72a197447857f8520449d4cba040e;hpb=c2c9a18dc3212fa69bcb173f5b0ed97c7996c044

diff --git a/datarouter-prov/src/main/java/org/onap/dmaap/datarouter/provisioning/utils/LOGJSONObject.java b/datarouter-prov/src/main/java/org/onap/dmaap/datarouter/provisioning/utils/LOGJSONObject.java
index dec3cc13..1518859a 100644
--- a/datarouter-prov/src/main/java/org/onap/dmaap/datarouter/provisioning/utils/LOGJSONObject.java
+++ b/datarouter-prov/src/main/java/org/onap/dmaap/datarouter/provisioning/utils/LOGJSONObject.java
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ public class LOGJSONObject {
         try {
             return this.toString(0);
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            return null;
+            return "";
         }
     }
 
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ public class LOGJSONObject {
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public static String valueToString(Object value) throws JSONException {
-        if (value == null || value.equals(null)) {
+        if (value == null) {
             return "null";
         }
         if (value instanceof JSONString) {
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ public class LOGJSONObject {
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     static final Writer writeValue(Writer writer, Object value,
                                    int indentFactor, int indent) throws JSONException, IOException {
-        if (value == null || value.equals(null)) {
+        if (value == null) {
             writer.write("null");
         } else if (value instanceof LOGJSONObject) {
             ((LOGJSONObject) value).write(writer, indentFactor, indent);