Handle an empty ByteBuf specially in HttpObjectEncoder

Related: #2983

Motivation:

It is a well known idiom to write an empty buffer and add a listener to
its future to close a channel when the last byte has been written out:

  ChannelFuture f = channel.writeAndFlush(Unpooled.EMPTY_BUFFER);
  f.addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);

When HttpObjectEncoder is in the pipeline, this still works, but it
silently raises an IllegalStateException, because HttpObjectEncoder does
not allow writing a ByteBuf when it is expecting an HttpMessage.

Modifications:

- Handle an empty ByteBuf specially in HttpObjectEncoder, so that
  writing an empty buffer does not fail even if the pipeline contains an
  HttpObjectEncoder
- Add a test

Result:

An exception is not triggered anymore by HttpObjectEncoder, when a user
attempts to write an empty buffer.