getLocation() may return null

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/dispatch/rpc/ProtobufSerialization.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/dispatch/rpc/ProtobufSerialization.java
index 76da9fbc1f7..9404eb845bc 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/dispatch/rpc/ProtobufSerialization.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/dispatch/rpc/ProtobufSerialization.java
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ public class ProtobufSerialization {
         var featureMap = ranking.getFeatures().asMap();
 
         builder.setQueryTreeBlob(serializeQueryTree(query.getModel().getQueryTree()));
-        builder.setGeoLocation(ranking.getLocation().toString());
+        if (ranking.getLocation() != null) {
+            builder.setGeoLocation(ranking.getLocation().toString());
+        }
         MapConverter.convertMapStrings(featureMap, builder::addFeatureOverrides);
         MapConverter.convertMapTensors(featureMap, builder::addTensorFeatureOverrides);
         MapConverter.convertStringMultiMap(query.getPresentation().getHighlight().getHighlightTerms(), builder::addHighlightTerms);