Github user nickwallen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/843#discussion_r151799462 --- Diff: metron-interface/metron-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/rest/service/impl/SearchServiceImpl.java --- @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ public GroupResponse group(GroupRequest groupRequest) throws RestException { @Override public Map<String, FieldType> getColumnMetadata(List<String> indices) throws RestException { try { + if (indices == null || indices.isEmpty()) { + indices = getDefaultIndices(); --- End diff -- If you're motivated, it would make sense to add a log statement whenever we muck with the indices behind the scenes. I feel like I'll be chasing a bug someday and not realize that the service layer is doing this.
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