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    Resolution: Duplicate
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    Component/s: Querying
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We should
1) Reject insertion of a document if any of the fields have an empty field name.
2) Reject any query operation where the path includes an empty field name, such as 
{'': 5} or {'.a': 5} or {'a.': 5} or {'a..b': 5}
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SERVER-6852 Disallow empty path components in documents and queries
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SERVER-19725 NULL pointer crash in QueryPlanner::plan with $near operator
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