allow submitting models even when requests dataset is empty

backend/app/services/models.py

@@ -250,9 +250,6 @@ class ModelService(HuggingFaceService):
                 for line in LogFormatter.stats(stats, "Repository Statistics"):
                     logger.info(line)
 
-                if not json_files:
-                    raise Exception("No JSON files found in repository")
-
                 # Initialize progress tracker
                 progress = ProgressTracker(total_files, "PROCESSING FILES")
 
@@ -536,7 +533,10 @@ class ModelService(HuggingFaceService):
 
         # Check that model on hub and valid
         valid, error, model_config = await self.validator.is_model_on_hub(
-            model_data["model_id"], model_data["revision"], model_info.gated, test_tokenizer=True
+            model_data["model_id"],
+            model_data["revision"],
+            model_info.gated,
+            test_tokenizer=True,
         )
         if not valid:
             logger.error(LogFormatter.error("Model on hub validation failed", error))