From 142c19c557e76a4b01168b52aa673a8d523ec546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark van Driel <mvdriel@nlware.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:00:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for: Empty post body for json will put null value in
 request->data

---
 lib/Cake/Controller/Component/RequestHandlerComponent.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/RequestHandlerComponent.php b/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/RequestHandlerComponent.php
index df6ca78d0..1915b981a 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/RequestHandlerComponent.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/RequestHandlerComponent.php
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class RequestHandlerComponent extends Component {
 
 		foreach ($this->_inputTypeMap as $type => $handler) {
 			if ($this->requestedWith($type)) {
-				$input = call_user_func_array(array($controller->request, 'input'), $handler);
+				$input = (array)call_user_func_array(array($controller->request, 'input'), $handler);
 				$controller->request->data = $input;
 			}
 		}