Problem reading empty sql file

[doorknob2]

I loaded an existing (third party) component and clicked the 'DataDesigner' button. The process reads the sql update files in the component/sql/updates directory. There were about 40 files, about 25% of which were empty files. On reading an empty files, the process terminated with an error message:
File read error.
I made two changes. The first was to update the message to include the name of the offending file and the second to allow empty files to be processed.
I changed helpers/table/helper.php (v0.0.21) lines 95-100 from
if( ! $fContents = JFile::read($file))
{
EcrHtml::message('File read error', 'error');

                return $tables;
            }

to
$fContents = JFile::read($file);
if( !is_string($fContents))
{
EcrHtml::message('File read error: '.$file, 'error');

                return $tables;
            }

[elkuku]

This looks quite interesting. Any chance you could craft a Pull Request for this? This would also assure that you will receive full credits for your work. Would be awesome 😉

That said, the "Data Designer" is heavy work in progress and sadly I didn't found the time to make it work properly (yet)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.