empty geometry error when applying spatially enabled dataframe's to_featureclass

Pro 2.5. When I try to execute to_featureclass on my spatially enabled dataframe I get the following run time error: The operation was attempted on an empty geometry.

I have run a script which checks for empty geometries in my dataframe and I don’t detect any.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

db = r'C:/sandbox/testout.gdb'
fc_name = os.path.join(db,'test_usda2')
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput=True
df_join = pd.merge(state_df, df_csv, how='right', left_on='NAME', right_on='State')
#check for null and empty geometries
for index, row in df_join.iterrows():
    row = row.copy()
    if not pd.isnull(row["SHAPE"]):
        if row["SHAPE"].is_empty:
            print('empty geometry')
            df_join.loc[index, "SHAPE"] = -999999
    else:
         df_join.loc[index, "SHAPE"] = -999999
df_join.drop(df_join[df_join["SHAPE"] == -999999].index, inplace=True)
df_join.spatial.to_featureclass(location=fc_name)

error:

RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-333-4608aea7f523> in <module>
     13          df_join.loc[index, "SHAPE"] = -999999
     14 df_join.drop(df_join[df_join["SHAPE"] == -999999].index, inplace=True)
---> 15 df_join.spatial.to_featureclass(location=fc_name)

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\features\geo\_accessor.py in to_featureclass(self, location, overwrite)
   1923         return to_featureclass(self,
   1924                                location=location,
-> 1925                                overwrite=overwrite)
   1926     #----------------------------------------------------------------------
   1927     def to_table(self, location, overwrite=True):

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\features\geo\_io\fileops.py in to_featureclass(geo, location, overwrite, validate)
    610 
    611         array = np.array([], np.dtype(dtypes))
--> 612         arcpy.da.ExtendTable(fc, oidfld, array, join_dummy, append_only=False)
    613 
    614         # 3. Insert the Data

RuntimeError: The operation was attempted on an empty geometry.

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Expected behavior Exports to feature class successfully

Platform (please complete the following information):

• OS: windows
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• Python API Version: 1.7

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[nzjs]

Can I request that improved error handling around this be added to the API? I recently ran into the above along with a separate issue #606, both errors returned were unrelated to the underlying problem.

For this issue, some of my dataframe column names were using characters unsupported in a GDB. For issue #606, some of my dataframe columns were unsupported dtypes.

I know it isn’t critical, but it might be helpful for future users of the library.

[achapkowski]

At the latest release, we added an optional sanitize column parameter when exporting data.