robertwb commented on a change in pull request #11454:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11454#discussion_r413412898



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File path: 
sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/transforms/splittabledofn/ByteKeyRangeTracker.java
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@@ -64,31 +64,38 @@ public ByteKeyRange currentRestriction() {
 
   @Override
   public SplitResult<ByteKeyRange> trySplit(double fractionOfRemainder) {
-    // TODO(BEAM-8871): Add support for splitting off a fixed amount of work 
for this restriction
-    // instead of only supporting checkpointing.
-
-    // If we haven't done any work, we should return the original range we 
were processing
-    // as the checkpoint.
-    if (lastAttemptedKey == null) {
-      ByteKeyRange rval = range;
-      // We update our current range to an interval that contains no elements.
-      range = NO_KEYS;
-      return SplitResult.of(range, rval);
+    // No split on an empty range.
+    if (NO_KEYS.equals(range)) {
+      return null;

Review comment:
       Semantically, what we want to return here is the empty split. It is 
important that the infrastructure be able to recognize and empty split (of type 
RestrictionT) so that it won't try to further split/reschedule it. One could 
create a new SplitResult type for Java, but I'm unconvinced it's worth its 
weight. (Certainly None/nil feel more appropriate for Python and Go 
respectively.)




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