From 6bf8f34d9f3a19efd11896a20f9c4b9a064a7b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Dellaluce <jasondellaluce@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:23:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(engine): correctly format json output in json_event

Signed-off-by: Jason Dellaluce <jasondellaluce@gmail.com>
---
 userspace/engine/json_evt.cpp | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/userspace/engine/json_evt.cpp b/userspace/engine/json_evt.cpp
index 8f22bc6f..3c14cb6b 100644
--- a/userspace/engine/json_evt.cpp
+++ b/userspace/engine/json_evt.cpp
@@ -1529,12 +1529,9 @@ void json_event_formatter::set_format(output_format of, const std::string &forma
 bool json_event_formatter::tostring_withformat(gen_event *gevt, std::string &output, gen_event_formatter::output_format of)
 {
 	json_event *ev = static_cast<json_event *>(gevt);
-
-	std::string ret;
-
 	if(of == OF_JSON)
 	{
-		ret = tojson(ev);
+		output = tojson(ev);
 		return true;
 	}
 	else