do minimal best-effort fixup of sorting spec for streaming

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/ValidateSortingSearcher.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/ValidateSortingSearcher.java
index 663704b1e0b..736dc7d7f39 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/ValidateSortingSearcher.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/ValidateSortingSearcher.java
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ public class ValidateSortingSearcher extends Searcher {
 
     @Override
     public Result search(Query query, Execution execution) {
+        ErrorMessage e = validate(query);
         if (indexingMode != QrSearchersConfig.Searchcluster.Indexingmode.STREAMING) {
-            ErrorMessage e = validate(query);
             if (e != null) {
                 Result r = new Result(query);
                 r.hits().addError(e);