Fix a bug where empty objects were returned as null (meaning parse failure) rather than as an empty list. Increment minor version

Author: stevenlagoy

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 {
-    "java.configuration.updateBuildConfiguration": "automatic"
+    "java.configuration.updateBuildConfiguration": "automatic",
+    "java.compile.nullAnalysis.mode": "disabled"
 }

pom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.github.stevenlagoy</groupId>
     <artifactId>json-java-objectifier</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0.1</version>
+    <version>1.0.2</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>JSON Java Objectifier</name>
     <description>Java tools for converting JSON into typed object structures</description>

src/main/java/core/JSONProcessor.java

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public static List<JSONObject> processObject(String objectLine) {
             return null;
         String members = objectLine.substring(1, objectLine.length() - 1).trim();
         if (members.isEmpty())
-            return null;
+            return new ArrayList<>();
         return processMembers(members);
     }
 

src/tests/java/ProcessorTests.java

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import core.JSONObject;
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ public void testProcessArray() {
     @Test
     public void testProcessObject() {
         // Test empty object
-        assertNull(JSONProcessor.processObject("{}"));
+        assertEquals(new ArrayList<>(), JSONProcessor.processObject("{}"));
 
         // Test simple object
         List<JSONObject> simple = JSONProcessor.processObject("{\"key\":\"value\"}");

src/tests/java/Tests.java

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import core.FileOperations;
+import core.JSONObject;
 import core.JSONProcessor;
 
 public class Tests {