From 551e18f793bbe2032a79d676fecf0b1a415cd16c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Pankratz <mail@felixpankratz.de>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 19:34:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] update readme, replace useless json usage

---
 README.md             | 1 +
 npm-manifest-check.py | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fbdc6de..af1ac65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ positional arguments:
 
 optional arguments:
   -h, --help   show this help message and exit
+  -r, --recursive  recursively check all dependencies for mismatches
   -b, --brief  do not show detailed comparisons of mismatching values
   -c, --color  colorize the output
 ```
diff --git a/npm-manifest-check.py b/npm-manifest-check.py
index ece3a1b..6906624 100755
--- a/npm-manifest-check.py
+++ b/npm-manifest-check.py
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ def parse_manifest(pkg):
     try:
         dependencies = latest_manifest['dependencies']
     except KeyError:
-        dependencies = json.loads('{}')
+        dependencies = {}
     try:
         scripts = latest_manifest['scripts']
     except KeyError:
-        scripts = json.loads('{}')
+        scripts = {}
     name = latest_manifest['name']
     
     return Manifest(name, latest_ver, dependencies, scripts)
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ def parse_actual_manifest(pkg, ver):
     try:
         dependencies = manifest['dependencies']
     except KeyError:
-        dependencies = json.loads('{}')
+        dependencies = {}
     try:
         scripts = manifest['scripts']
     except KeyError:
-        scripts = json.loads('{}')
+        scripts = {}
     name = manifest['name']
 
     return Manifest(name, version, dependencies, scripts)