From bac5447df148a8013950dd6877d77df84b5eba7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig <3979063+craig8@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:02:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #2840 from bonicim/bugfix/load_config

Fix bug in load_config
---
 volttron/platform/agent/utils.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/volttron/platform/agent/utils.py b/volttron/platform/agent/utils.py
index 285722a486..1cff227b9b 100644
--- a/volttron/platform/agent/utils.py
+++ b/volttron/platform/agent/utils.py
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@ def load_config(config_path):
     # Then if that fails we fallback to our modified json parser.
     try:
         with open(config_path) as f:
-            return yaml.safe_load(f.read())
+            config = yaml.safe_load(f.read())
+            if config is None:
+                return {}
+            return config
     except yaml.scanner.ScannerError as e:
         try:
             with open(config_path) as f: