The Counts inside an iteration aren't being properly printed when the value is 0

In cases like the following:

#{for j=SubtasksCount}
${Subtasks[j].ComponentsCount}
${Subtasks[j].LinksCount}
#{end}

the ComponentsCount and LinksCount, when there's none, instead of returning 0 are returning empty. This becomes a problem using conditional iterations like this:

#{if (%{'${Subtasks[j].ComponentsCount}'.equals('0')})}
There are no components
#{end}

However, if the counts value is different from 0, the proper value is returned