From 15533dca0908815f4172bf6c6571288c406831b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: clint shryock <clint@ctshryock.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:06:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] actually use the value

---
 builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_sns_topic.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_sns_topic.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_sns_topic.go
index b0d6fecf5..6bf0127d0 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_sns_topic.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_sns_topic.go
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ func resourceAwsSnsTopic() *schema.Resource {
 				Optional: true,
 				Computed: true,
 				StateFunc: func(v interface{}) string {
-					if v == nil {
+					s, ok := v.(string)
+					if !ok || s == "" {
 						return ""
 					}
-					jsonb := []byte{}
+					jsonb := []byte(s)
 					buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
 					if err := json.Compact(buffer, jsonb); err != nil {
 						log.Printf("[WARN] Error compacting JSON for Policy in SNS Topic")