I know this is an edge case, but... I have a search with a field sort (using Java API) that throws an exception if the index is empty. I believe this is because my empty index has no mappings defined, and the sort cannot figure out the data type of the field in question (even though there are n…

Searching an empty index

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Searching an empty index