From 95f9519333d53a426b89c7194d1f843b4863f1fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brendan <2bndy5@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:06:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] will_set() payload of None -> 0-len str

---
 adafruit_minimqtt/adafruit_minimqtt.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/adafruit_minimqtt/adafruit_minimqtt.py b/adafruit_minimqtt/adafruit_minimqtt.py
index 656c8c0a..1a27a8e3 100755
--- a/adafruit_minimqtt/adafruit_minimqtt.py
+++ b/adafruit_minimqtt/adafruit_minimqtt.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def will_set(self, topic=None, payload=None, qos=0, retain=False):
         if self._is_connected:
             raise MMQTTException("Last Will should only be called before connect().")
         if payload is None:
-            raise MMQTTException("Message can not be None.")
+            payload = ""
         if isinstance(payload, (int, float, str)):
             payload = str(payload).encode()
         else: