testng: Parameterized test class crashes when data provider returns empty array

Let’s say I have a test class with a @Factory-annotated constructor:

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.Factory;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public class TestTest {
    @DataProvider(name = "values")
    public static Object[][] values() {
        return new Object[][]{{1}, {2}, {3}};
    }

    private final int value;

    @Factory(dataProvider = "values")
    public TestTest(int value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    @Test
    public void test() {
        assertEquals(value, 2);
    }
}

This works perfectly (apart from the assertion errors this silly test throws).

However, if I change the data provider to return an empty array instead (new Object[][]{}), TestNG crashes:

org.testng.TestNGException: 
Can't invoke public void TestTest.test(): either make it static or add a no-args constructor to your class 

I expected the test to be ignored, just like it is when the data provider is on method-level instead of class-level. Is this the desired behaviour? If so, why? I ran into this issue because I have data providers that are supposed to be NOPs in certain test configurations.