From ca01ac7326dab7b6964c9a3276886ab81bcfa49a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:41:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Dont raise a KeyError in get_item_id() when the field does
 not exist

---
 src/calibre/db/cache.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/db/cache.py b/src/calibre/db/cache.py
index 5990a5e2bc..a0890994c8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/db/cache.py
+++ b/src/calibre/db/cache.py
@@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ class Cache:
     @read_api
     def get_item_id(self, field, item_name):
         ' Return the item id for item_name (case-insensitive) '
-        rmap = {icu_lower(v) if isinstance(v, str) else v:k for k, v in iteritems(self.fields[field].table.id_map)}
+        try:
+            rmap = {icu_lower(v) if isinstance(v, str) else v:k for k, v in iteritems(self.fields[field].table.id_map)}
+        except KeyError:
+            rmap = {}
         return rmap.get(icu_lower(item_name) if isinstance(item_name, str) else item_name, None)
 
     @read_api