From d930a126a7cf3f13f7bceb1e417064ce79115287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PJ Fanning <pjfanning@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:43:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] getColumnDesc returns unpaired square bracket when columns
 are empty (#283)

---
 .../com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/CsvSchema.java     | 5 ++---
 .../jackson/dataformat/csv/schema/CsvSchemaTest.java        | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/csv/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/CsvSchema.java b/csv/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/CsvSchema.java
index 9e7fdb2f..1c083351 100644
--- a/csv/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/CsvSchema.java
+++ b/csv/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/CsvSchema.java
@@ -1456,10 +1456,9 @@ public Column column(String name, int probableIndex) {
     public String getColumnDesc()
     {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(100);
+        sb.append('[');
         for (Column col : _columns) {
-            if (sb.length() == 0) {
-                sb.append('[');
-            } else {
+            if (sb.length() > 1) {
                 sb.append(',');
             }
             sb.append('"');
diff --git a/csv/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/schema/CsvSchemaTest.java b/csv/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/schema/CsvSchemaTest.java
index f11510ff..ab5324af 100644
--- a/csv/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/schema/CsvSchemaTest.java
+++ b/csv/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/csv/schema/CsvSchemaTest.java
@@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ public void testReorderWithComparator() throws Exception
         _verifyLinks(schema);
     }
 
+    public void testColumnDescForEmptyScheme() throws Exception
+    {
+        CsvSchema schema = CsvSchema.emptySchema();
+        assertEquals("[]", schema.getColumnDesc());
+    }
+
     private void _verifyLinks(CsvSchema schema)
     {
         List<Column> all = new ArrayList<Column>();