From 71bd7420a7f9d539c3446bb63f600f1cd59f2a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Davis <matt.davis@ascend-tech.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:35:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] throw a more useful exception if the field does not exist

---
 .../src/main/java/io/zulia/server/index/ZuliaIndex.java       | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zulia-server/src/main/java/io/zulia/server/index/ZuliaIndex.java b/zulia-server/src/main/java/io/zulia/server/index/ZuliaIndex.java
index a4f06e4a..1e9ad584 100644
--- a/zulia-server/src/main/java/io/zulia/server/index/ZuliaIndex.java
+++ b/zulia-server/src/main/java/io/zulia/server/index/ZuliaIndex.java
@@ -414,6 +414,10 @@ private Query getTermInSetQuery(ZuliaQuery.Query query, String field) {
 
 		IndexFieldInfo indexFieldInfo = indexConfig.getIndexFieldInfo(field);
 
+		if (indexFieldInfo == null) {
+			throw new RuntimeException("Field <" + field + "> is not indexed");
+		}
+
 		String sortField = indexFieldInfo.getInternalSortFieldName();
 
 		if (sortField != null) {