MemPipeline's emptyPTable method returns a MemTable

["Champion,Mac" <Ma...@Cerner.com>]

Over the past couple of days I have been reworking some code to get rid of null and pass around EmptyPTable instead, when I broke a few tests. After some investigation, I found that an “instanceof EmptyPTable” check wasn’t triggering because the MemPipeline I was using for tests was building an empty MemTable when emptyPTable was called instead of what I (mistakenly?) expected would be an EmptyPTable.

Is this intentional, or something that was overlooked?

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Re: MemPipeline's emptyPTable method returns a MemTable

[Josh Wills <jo...@gmail.com>]

It was intentional- I'd prefer using the getSize method to check for
emptiness in an implementation independent way.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:11 AM Champion,Mac <Ma...@cerner.com>
wrote:

>  Over the past couple of days I have been reworking some code to get rid
> of null and pass around EmptyPTable instead, when I broke a few tests.
> After some investigation, I found that an “instanceof EmptyPTable” check
> wasn’t triggering because the MemPipeline I was using for tests was
> building an empty MemTable when emptyPTable was called instead of what I
> (mistakenly?) expected would be an EmptyPTable.
>
>  Is this intentional, or something that was overlooked?
>
>  CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from
> Cerner Corporation and are intended only for the addressee. The information
> contained in this message is confidential and may constitute inside or
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>