From c855ba64b4efabcd6248791962c73a3806b85bda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cleem <cleem@yandex-team.ru>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:10:03 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Pack empty arrays as zero-length arrays

---
 example/simple.d | 4 +++-
 src/msgpack.d    | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/example/simple.d b/example/simple.d
index 032ae92..86aa445 100644
--- a/example/simple.d
+++ b/example/simple.d
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ void main()
 {
     auto packer = packer(appender!(ubyte[])());
 
-    packer.packArray(null, true, "Hi!", -1, [1, 2]);
+    int[] emptyArray;
+    int[int] emptyMap;
+    packer.packArray(null, true, "Hi!", -1, [1, 2], emptyArray, emptyMap);
 
     auto unpacker = StreamingUnpacker(packer.stream.data);
 
diff --git a/src/msgpack.d b/src/msgpack.d
index 71cbfc3..8870dc2 100644
--- a/src/msgpack.d
+++ b/src/msgpack.d
@@ -698,9 +698,6 @@ struct PackerImpl(Stream) if (isOutputRange!(Stream, ubyte) && isOutputRange!(St
             }
         }
 
-        if (array.empty)
-            return packNil();
-
         // Raw bytes
         static if (isByte!(U) || isSomeChar!(U)) {
             ubyte[] raw = cast(ubyte[])array;
@@ -720,9 +717,6 @@ struct PackerImpl(Stream) if (isOutputRange!(Stream, ubyte) && isOutputRange!(St
     /// ditto
     ref PackerImpl pack(T)(in T array) if (isAssociativeArray!T)
     {
-        if (array is null)
-            return packNil();
-
         beginMap(array.length);
         foreach (key, value; array) {
             pack(key);