[SEDONA-207] Fix ambiguity of empty multi-geometries and multi geometries containing only empty geometries #766
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This pull request fixes the handling of empty multi-geometries in the geometry serializer. In the current implementation, we omitted structure data for multi-geometries containing only empty geometries, such as
MULTILINESTRING (EMPTY, EMPTY)
. In this case, we cannot tell if it is an empty multi-geometry or multi-geometry containing only empty geometries. This patch fixes the problem by always writing structure data for multi geometries.This patch also fixes other issues with the geometry serializer:
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