sync: from ael backend/space/

rerank.py

@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ def rerank(query, results, budget_ms=800):
         return out
     router = _get_router()
     if router is None:
+        # Recomputed here, not reused from above: `_no_opinion()` reads
+        # `_load_error`, and until this line nothing had *tried* to load the
+        # model, so the value captured in `out` was always None on exactly the
+        # path that needed it. The first version of this reported "no opinion"
+        # for a reranker that had never once been installed.
+        out["no_opinion"] = _no_opinion()
         return out
 
     t0 = time.time()