temporary fix for datatype from searchmethod

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/streamingvisitors/src/vespa/searchvisitor/rankmanager.cpp b/streamingvisitors/src/vespa/searchvisitor/rankmanager.cpp
index cdaf14eef9b..eebd9a79c07 100644
--- a/streamingvisitors/src/vespa/searchvisitor/rankmanager.cpp
+++ b/streamingvisitors/src/vespa/searchvisitor/rankmanager.cpp
@@ -45,10 +45,15 @@ RankManager::Snapshot::addProperties(const vespa::config::search::RankProfilesCo
 FieldInfo::DataType
 to_data_type(VsmfieldsConfig::Fieldspec::Searchmethod search_method)
 {
-    if (search_method == VsmfieldsConfig::Fieldspec::Searchmethod::NEAREST_NEIGHBOR) {
+    // detecting DataType from Searchmethod will not give correct results,
+    // we should probably use the document type
+    if (search_method == VsmfieldsConfig::Fieldspec::Searchmethod::NEAREST_NEIGHBOR ||
+        search_method == VsmfieldsConfig::Fieldspec::Searchmethod::NONE)
+    {
         return FieldInfo::DataType::TENSOR;
     }
     // This is the default FieldInfo data type if not specified.
+    // Wrong in most cases.
     return FieldInfo::DataType::DOUBLE;
 }