From 7f91734686f0297d03e86461bd7f716afe231b40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:31:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initial plan


From 8d81de328367b51ea3688ab8871498fd32912f9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:50:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add error checking in fetchEmbedding before accessing
 result.hits()

Co-authored-by: andreer <264780+andreer@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../searchers/RelatedDocumentsByNearestNeighborSearcher.java   | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/searchers/RelatedDocumentsByNearestNeighborSearcher.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/searchers/RelatedDocumentsByNearestNeighborSearcher.java
index 37932cd281f..2dd9e8c3887 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/searchers/RelatedDocumentsByNearestNeighborSearcher.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/searchers/RelatedDocumentsByNearestNeighborSearcher.java
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ private Tensor fetchEmbedding(String sourceId, String idField, String embeddingF
         fetchQuery.getRanking().setProfile("unranked");
 
         Result result = execution.search(fetchQuery);
+        if (result.hits().getError() != null) {
+            return null;
+        }
         execution.fill(result, summary);
 
         if (result.hits().size() < 1) {