From 60e1bdcd239385ded34ee7376fb5119c38e3a902 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hazel <hazel.he@datastax.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:03:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fallback to cassandra token if a reranking key is not
 provided

---
 .../io/stargate/sgv2/jsonapi/api/request/RequestContext.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/io/stargate/sgv2/jsonapi/api/request/RequestContext.java b/src/main/java/io/stargate/sgv2/jsonapi/api/request/RequestContext.java
index 0ef7804d44..6b07af078d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/stargate/sgv2/jsonapi/api/request/RequestContext.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/stargate/sgv2/jsonapi/api/request/RequestContext.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public RequestContext(
     this.rerankingCredentials =
         HeaderBasedRerankingKeyResolver.resolveRerankingKey(routingContext)
             .map(s -> new RerankingCredentials(tenant, normalizeOptionalString(s)))
-            .orElseGet(() -> new RerankingCredentials(tenant, ""));
+            .orElseGet(() -> new RerankingCredentials(tenant, authToken));
   }
 
   private static String generateRequestId() {