From 00aef13dd37ee188f5a569677c5f341d7904fb98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:52:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "fix: restore old behaviour of empty json w/ 401 code
 in admin middleware" [breaking]

This reverts commit dda5d426107b19e35dff1e83213bc63722011f4b.

re: #11099
---
 src/middleware/admin.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/middleware/admin.js b/src/middleware/admin.js
index 3a49f2d729..b514fb5cca 100644
--- a/src/middleware/admin.js
+++ b/src/middleware/admin.js
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ middleware.checkPrivileges = helpers.try(async (req, res, next) => {
 	}
 
 	if (res.locals.isAPI) {
-		res.status(401).json({});
+		controllers.helpers.formatApiResponse(401, res);
 	} else {
 		res.redirect(`${nconf.get('relative_path')}/login?local=1`);
 	}