Hi devs, Do we have an approach to represent an "empty" PCollection? I have ran into problems quite often recently:
1) I want to union a list of PCollections. If the input list is empty, I would prefer returning a PCollection rather than null, as I don't want to check for null everywhere. 2) Some of my input parameter (i.e. path on HDFS) may be optional. The path is read into a PCollection, and is left joined to another data set. The left join is to add some extra properties to the data set, so it will be fine if an empty set is joined. I think my scenarios above should also be useful to others. Any ideas?
