From 0ccc005fe64690bf682fee95ce43f23c342c2b48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Olesen <Mark.Olesen@esi-group.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:25:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: add no-op methods to Nullobject

- empty(), size(), toc(), sortedToc()
---
 .../primitives/nullObject/nullObject.H        | 27 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/nullObject/nullObject.H b/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/nullObject/nullObject.H
index 2b0782cb54..e8ca12f952 100644
--- a/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/nullObject/nullObject.H
+++ b/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/nullObject/nullObject.H
@@ -48,10 +48,9 @@ SourceFiles
 namespace Foam
 {
 
-// Forward declarations
+// Forward Declarations
 class Istream;
 class Ostream;
-
 class NullObject;
 
 /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
@@ -111,6 +110,30 @@ public:
         {
             return data_[0].val;
         }
+
+        //- No elements
+        inline constexpr bool empty() const
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        //- Zero elements
+        inline constexpr label size() const
+        {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        //- No-op method (for HashTable replacement)
+        inline const NullObject& toc() const
+        {
+            return *this;
+        }
+
+        //- No-op method (for HashTable replacement)
+        inline const NullObject& sortedToc() const
+        {
+            return *this;
+        }
 };