[net] TParallelMergingFile: don't rely on nbytes for UploadAndReset() #20211
      
        
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nbytesvalue returned by TDirectoryFile::Write() is only > 0 if we write at least one TObject to the file, which is not the case for non-TObject-based objects that handle their own writing (e.g. RNTuple through RMiniFile).This means that if we write only non-TObjects in a TParallelMergingFile we will never call UploadAndReset() by only checking nbytes. With this PR, we instead use GetBytesWritten() to check if anything gets written by TDirectoryFile::Write(), which works even in case of non- TObjects.
cc @amete - this should fix one of the issues you observed with your parallel file merger when you only merge RNTuples.