diff --git a/src/modules/nsq/nsq_json.c b/src/modules/nsq/nsq_json.c
index 85b817364a0..a817b70ecd3 100644
--- a/src/modules/nsq/nsq_json.c
+++ b/src/modules/nsq/nsq_json.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct json_object * nsq_json_get_field_object(str* json, str* field)
 	struct json_object *j = json_tokener_parse(dup);
 	pkg_free(dup);
 
-	if (is_error(j)) {
+	if (j==NULL) {
 		LM_ERR("empty or invalid JSON\n");
 		return NULL;
 	}