Remove dead code

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/StructDataField.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/StructDataField.java
index 18986667a6c..8d8be0d3df0 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/StructDataField.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/StructDataField.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import com.yahoo.prelude.hitfield.JSONString;
 /**
  * A hit field containing JSON structured data
  */
-public class StructDataField extends JSONField {
+public class StructDataField extends DocsumField {
 
     public StructDataField(String name) {
         super(name);
@@ -22,10 +22,17 @@ public class StructDataField extends JSONField {
 
     @Override
     public Object convert(Inspector value) {
-        if (value.type() == Type.STRING) {
-            return super.convert(value);
-        }
+        if (value.type() == Type.STRING)
+            return convertString(value);
         return new StructuredData(value);
     }
 
+    private Object convertString(Inspector value) {
+        if (value.valid()) {
+            return new JSONString(value);
+        } else {
+            return new JSONString("");
+        }
+    }
+
 }