[LUCENE-650] NPE doing local sensitive sorting when sort field is missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: core/search
• Assignee: Chris M. Hostetter
• Reporter: Oliver Hutchison
• Created: 14/Aug/06 03:39
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:30
• Resolved: 21/Aug/06 01:16

Description

If you do a local sensitive sort against a field that is missing from some documents in the index an NPE will get thrown.

Attached is a patch which resolved the issue and updates the sort test case to give coverage to this issue.