fix: pandas formatting

Author: pythoninthegrass

app/main.py

@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ def get_events(
     if not os.path.exists(json_fn) or os.stat(json_fn).st_size == 0:
         return {"message": "No events found", "events": []}
 
-    return pd.read_json(json_fn)
+    return pd.read_json(json_fn).to_dict('records')
 
 
 @api_router.get("/check-schedule")

app/slackbot.py

@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ def fmt_json(filename):
     # create dataframe
     df = pd.DataFrame(data)
 
+    # handle empty dataframe case
+    if df.empty:
+        return []
+
     # add column: 'message' with date, name, title, eventUrl
     df['message'] = df.apply(lambda x: f'• {x["date"]} *{x["name"]}* <{x["eventUrl"]}|{x["title"]}> ', axis=1)