From b5a05c0ab78823534b787f00b9b8fda88a04e5c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Catignani <chrisc@uber.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 00:41:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix to prevent empty messages from being posted

---
 src/main/java/com/uber/kafkaSpraynozzle/KafkaPoster.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/uber/kafkaSpraynozzle/KafkaPoster.java b/src/main/java/com/uber/kafkaSpraynozzle/KafkaPoster.java
index d78234f..a807bc5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/uber/kafkaSpraynozzle/KafkaPoster.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/uber/kafkaSpraynozzle/KafkaPoster.java
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ public void run() {
     }
 
     private boolean postBatchEvents(List<ByteArrayEntity> batch) {
+        if (batch.isEmpty()) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
         final long NANOS_PER_SECOND = 1000L * 1000L * 1000L;
         final long NANOS_PER_MILLI_SECOND = 1000L * 1000L;
         int pickedUrlIdx = currentUrl;