changed None to return empty string instead of null string

sanic/response.py

@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ def json(body, status=200, headers=None,
     :param headers: Custom Headers.
     :param kwargs: Remaining arguments that are passed to the json encoder.
     """
-    return HTTPResponse(dumps(body, **kwargs), headers=headers,
+    _body = dumps(body, **kwargs) if body else None
+    return HTTPResponse(_body, headers=headers,
                         status=status, content_type=content_type)
 
 

tests/test_requests.py

@@ -109,12 +109,13 @@ def test_empty_json():
 
     @app.route('/')
     async def handler(request):
-        assert request.json == None
+        assert request.json is None
         return json(request.json)
 
     request, response = app.test_client.get('/')
     assert response.status == 200
-    assert response.text == 'null'
+    assert response.text == ''
+
 
 def test_invalid_json():
     app = Sanic('test_json')

tests/test_response.py

@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ def json_app():
     async def test(request):
         return json(JSON_DATA)
 
+    @app.delete("/")
+    async def test_delete(request):
+        return json(None, status=204)
+
     return app
 
 
@@ -73,6 +77,14 @@ def test_json_response(json_app):
     assert response.text == json_dumps(JSON_DATA)
     assert response.json == JSON_DATA
 
+
+def test_no_content(json_app):
+    request, response = json_app.test_client.delete('/')
+    assert response.status == 204
+    assert response.text == ''
+    assert response.headers['Content-Length'] == '0'
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def streaming_app():
     app = Sanic('streaming')