Protect against null repeated fields.

There's no distinction between a repeated field being null and being
empty. In both cases, nothing is sent on the wire. Clients might for
whatever reason inadvertently set a repeated field to null, so
protect against that and treat it just as if the field was empty.

Change-Id: Ic3846f7f2189d6cfff6f8ef3ca217daecc3c8be7