From 14d04974aef857e1a0ea4530b19e40d4958d047f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Aeschlimann <martinae@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:56:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Error when invoking the open external command: Error in
 response: Unable to parse response as JSON. Fixes
 microsoft/vscode-remote-release#6412

---
 src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostCLIServer.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostCLIServer.ts b/src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostCLIServer.ts
index 230fbc62110..4d6cf235cc7 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostCLIServer.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostCLIServer.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export class CLIServerBase {
 	private onRequest(req: http.IncomingMessage, res: http.ServerResponse): void {
 		const sendResponse = (statusCode: number, returnObj: any) => {
 			res.writeHead(statusCode, { 'content-type': 'application/json' });
-			res.end(JSON.stringify(returnObj), (err?: any) => err && this.logService.error(err));
+			res.end(JSON.stringify(returnObj || null), (err?: any) => err && this.logService.error(err));
 		};
 
 		const chunks: string[] = [];