Other sinks do have a way of writing something when there is no
PCollection. One way to do this is to flatten the input PCollection with a
PCollection containing .a single dummy element (generated using Create).
That way there is always something there to trigger processing.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Chaim Turkel <[email protected]> wrote:

> that is the problem, i want to write a status that i tried and that
> there were no records
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Chaim,
> >
> > So, you mean you call MongoDBIO.write() with an empty PCollection (no
> > element in the collection) ?
> >
> > The write is basically a DoFn so, it won't do anything if the
> PCollection is
> > empty.
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> >
> > On 10/16/2017 01:59 PM, Chaim Turkel wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>    In the case that there are no records to read, is there a way to get
> >> called so that i can write the status?
> >>
> >> chaim
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> > [email protected]
> > http://blog.nanthrax.net
> > Talend - http://www.talend.com
>

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