#162 An empty list of spans from ph-eye does not indicate failure.

phileas-core/src/main/java/ai/philterd/phileas/services/filters/ai/pheye/PhEyeFilter.java

@@ -161,15 +161,10 @@ public FilterResult filter(final Policy policy, final String context, final Stri
 
                 LOGGER.debug("Returning {} NER spans.", spans.size());
 
-                return new FilterResult(context, documentId, piece, spans);
-
-            } else {
-
-                // We received a null list of spans from philter-ner. It means something went wrong.
-                throw new IOException("Unable to process document. Received error response from philter-ner.");
-
             }
 
+            return new FilterResult(context, documentId, piece, spans);
+
         } else {
 
             // The request to philter-ner was not successful.