From fee7a16692386314db450d293ea29c8eb86d6a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WerWolv <werwolv98@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:23:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Exception being thrown while loading projects

Fixes #2091
---
 plugins/builtin/source/content/views/view_patches.cpp | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/builtin/source/content/views/view_patches.cpp b/plugins/builtin/source/content/views/view_patches.cpp
index 97e30b755..0a4c91d51 100644
--- a/plugins/builtin/source/content/views/view_patches.cpp
+++ b/plugins/builtin/source/content/views/view_patches.cpp
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ namespace hex::plugin::builtin {
             .basePath = "patches.json",
             .required = false,
             .load = [](prv::Provider *provider, const std::fs::path &basePath, const Tar &tar) {
-                auto json = nlohmann::json::parse(tar.readString(basePath));
+                auto content = tar.readString(basePath);
+                if (content.empty())
+                    return true;
+
+                auto json = nlohmann::json::parse(content);
                 auto patches = json.at("patches").get<std::map<u64, u8>>();
 
                 for (const auto &[address, value] : patches) {