From 011b2c6d4ffee26cb42780a2d5d92ba4f5fec4eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sonja Krause-Harder <sonja.krause-harder@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:00:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't fail on invalid input for now.

---
 .../ingest_manager/server/services/epm/fields/field.ts    | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_manager/server/services/epm/fields/field.ts b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_manager/server/services/epm/fields/field.ts
index f3a81c2521ce7..aebea4a19ba9a 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_manager/server/services/epm/fields/field.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_manager/server/services/epm/fields/field.ts
@@ -113,9 +113,11 @@ function dedupFields(fields: Fields): Fields {
         found.fields = dedupFields(found.fields.concat(field.fields));
       } else {
         // only 'group' fields can be merged in this way
-        throw new Error(
-          "Can't merge fields " + JSON.stringify(found) + ' and ' + JSON.stringify(field)
-        );
+        // XXX: don't abort on error for now
+        // see discussion in https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/59894
+        // throw new Error(
+        //   "Can't merge fields " + JSON.stringify(found) + ' and ' + JSON.stringify(field)
+        // );
       }
     } else {
       if (field.fields) {