MappingRedisConverter deserializes collections as nulls if it is empty

[Numbedme]

Method readCollectionOrArray creates a collection, although if there are no keys it returns null, which seems kinda strange. Wouldn't it be more client-friendly to return an empty list?
For example:

@RedisHash("Entity")
public class Entity {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @Indexed
    private List<String> props;
}

props will be null on query if it was saved as an empty list

[Aaur1s]

Will this ever be fixed? Because of this issue Kotlin data-classes are looking funky if they have possibly empty collection attribute, example:

@RedisHash("access_tokens")
data class AccessToken(
    @Id val id: String,
    val principalName: String,
    val authorizedRoles: Set<String>, // <- deserialization results an error if set is empty
)

This issue requires to write something like this:

@RedisHash("access_tokens")
data class AccessToken(
    @Id val id: String,
    val principalName: String,
    private val _authorizedRoles: Set<String>?,
) {
    val authorizedRoles: Set<String> get() = _authorizedRoles ?: setOf()
}

Very annoying for large entities.