From 82fcea66023ec45f5979a5a3b3650a2651a3f2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amy Palamountain <amy@palamounta.in>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 13:07:53 +1300
Subject: [PATCH]  a work around for simple json support for empty root nodes

---
 Octokit/Http/JsonHttpPipeline.cs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Octokit/Http/JsonHttpPipeline.cs b/Octokit/Http/JsonHttpPipeline.cs
index 81e0d7e2..3eea0d4e 100644
--- a/Octokit/Http/JsonHttpPipeline.cs
+++ b/Octokit/Http/JsonHttpPipeline.cs
@@ -44,8 +44,12 @@ namespace Octokit.Internal
 
             if (response.ContentType != null && response.ContentType.Equals("application/json", StringComparison.Ordinal))
             {
-                var json = _serializer.Deserialize<T>(response.Body);
-                response.BodyAsObject = json;
+                // simple json does not support the root node being empty. Will submit a pr but in the mean time....
+                if (response.Body != "{}") 
+                {
+                    var json = _serializer.Deserialize<T>(response.Body);
+                    response.BodyAsObject = json;
+                }
             }
         }
     }