From 6b9175d24cefbe10fc60f5312db9d623c9365fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: holmbergius <holmbergius@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:03:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prevents empty target annotation lists from being requeued

---
 src/main/java/org/ecocean/servlet/IAGateway.java | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/ecocean/servlet/IAGateway.java b/src/main/java/org/ecocean/servlet/IAGateway.java
index 68c968da51..ba53c1b2d8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/ecocean/servlet/IAGateway.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/ecocean/servlet/IAGateway.java
@@ -464,11 +464,13 @@ private static JSONObject _sendIdentificationTask(Annotation ann, String context
             IBEISIA.waitForIAPriming();
             JSONObject sent = IBEISIA.beginIdentifyAnnotations(qanns, matchingSet, queryConfigDict,
                 userConfidence, myShepherd, task, baseUrl, fastlane);
-            if (!sent.optBoolean("success", false)) {
+            if (!sent.optBoolean("success", false) && sent.toString().indexOf("emptyTargetAnnotations")==-1) {
+
                 String errorMsg = sent.optString("error", "(unknown error)");
                 System.out.println("beginIdentifyAnnotations() was unsuccessful due to " +
                     errorMsg + "; hopefully we requeue");
                 throw new IOException("beginIdentifyAnnotations() failed due to " + errorMsg);
+ 
             }
             ann.setIdentificationStatus(IBEISIA.STATUS_PROCESSING);
             taskRes.put("beginIdentify", sent);