From e213f3dda0ea2272069347e848507ec0dab47dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jnmclarty <jeffrey.mclarty@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 13:17:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: quick fix to zero-length feeds

---
 trump/indexing.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/trump/indexing.py b/trump/indexing.py
index e11aaa8..09d669b 100644
--- a/trump/indexing.py
+++ b/trump/indexing.py
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ def build_ordf(self, orind, orval, colname):
         return self._common_passthrough(ordf)
     def _common_passthrough(self, obj):
         try:
-            return getattr(self, '_' + self.case)(obj)
+            if len(obj.index) > 0:
+                return getattr(self, '_' + self.case)(obj)
+            else:
+                obj.index = self.create_empty()
+                return obj
         except AttributeError:
             self._notimp_error()
     def _notimp_error(self):