Null check field names in QueryStringQuerybuilder

Signed-off-by: Daniel Widdis <[email protected]>

Author: dbwiddis

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 ### Fixed
 - Fix simultaneously creating a snapshot and updating the repository can potentially trigger an infinite loop ([#17532](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/17532))
 - Remove package org.opensearch.transport.grpc and replace with org.opensearch.plugin.transport.grpc ([#18031](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18031))
+- Null check field names in QueryStringQuerybuilder ([#18194](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18194))
 
 ### Security
 

rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search/50_multi_match.yml

@@ -33,3 +33,18 @@
   - match: { hits.total.value: 3 }
   - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "2" }
   - gt: { hits.hits.2._score: 0.0 }
+
+  # Test that query with null field fails appropriately
+  - do:
+      catch: bad_request
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            query_string:
+              query: "red"
+              fields: ["color", null, "shape"]
+
+  - match: { status: 400 }
+  - match: { error.type: parsing_exception }
+  - match: { error.reason: "[query_string] field name in [fields] cannot be null" }

server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/query/QueryStringQueryBuilder.java

@@ -685,6 +685,12 @@ public static QueryStringQueryBuilder fromXContent(XContentParser parser) throws
                 if (FIELDS_FIELD.match(currentFieldName, parser.getDeprecationHandler())) {
                     List<String> fields = new ArrayList<>();
                     while (parser.nextToken() != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
+                        if (parser.currentToken() == XContentParser.Token.VALUE_NULL) {
+                            throw new ParsingException(
+                                parser.getTokenLocation(),
+                                "[" + QueryStringQueryBuilder.NAME + "] field name in [" + currentFieldName + "] cannot be null"
+                            );
+                        }
                         fields.add(parser.text());
                     }
                     fieldsAndWeights = QueryParserHelper.parseFieldsAndWeights(fields);

server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/query/QueryStringQueryBuilderTests.java

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.opensearch.common.unit.Fuzziness;
 import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContent;
+import org.opensearch.core.common.ParsingException;
 import org.opensearch.core.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.opensearch.index.mapper.FieldNamesFieldMapper;
 import org.opensearch.index.mapper.MapperService;
@@ -1013,6 +1014,18 @@ public void testToQueryWildcardNonExistingFields() throws IOException {
         assertThat(expectedQuery, equalTo(query));
     }
 
+    public void testNullFieldInFieldsArray() throws IOException {
+        String queryAsString = "{\n"
+            + "  \"query_string\" : {\n"
+            + "    \"query\" : \"test\",\n"
+            + "    \"fields\" : [ \"field1\", null, \"field2\" ]\n"
+            + "  }\n"
+            + "}";
+
+        ParsingException e = expectThrows(ParsingException.class, () -> parseQuery(queryAsString));
+        assertEquals("[query_string] field name in [fields] cannot be null", e.getMessage());
+    }
+
     public void testToQueryTextParsing() throws IOException {
         {
             QueryStringQueryBuilder queryBuilder = new QueryStringQueryBuilder("foo bar").field(TEXT_FIELD_NAME).field(KEYWORD_FIELD_NAME);