From d3416336ed4d5b3def67303e4f9f771e998a4e04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Jones <mat@matburt.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 10:26:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Handle the case where the existing extra vars is None

---
 awx/main/models/jobs.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/awx/main/models/jobs.py b/awx/main/models/jobs.py
index db79c7ef13..2abd9ad68a 100644
--- a/awx/main/models/jobs.py
+++ b/awx/main/models/jobs.py
@@ -451,7 +451,10 @@ class Job(UnifiedJob, JobOptions):
             evars = json.loads(self.extra_vars)
         except Exception, e:
             return
-        evars.update(extra_data)
+        if evars is None:
+            evars = extra_data
+        else:
+            evars.update(extra_data)
         self.update_fields(extra_vars=json.dumps(evars))
 
     def copy(self):