From 850de5056e300e42887af67965a3cbb5f7c790a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Rzepka <code@normanrz.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:05:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] throw an exception when reading outside of an array

---
 src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/Array.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/Array.java b/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/Array.java
index bbe97bf..631ef70 100644
--- a/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/Array.java
+++ b/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/Array.java
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ boolean chunkIsInArray(long[] chunkCoords) {
   public ucar.ma2.Array readChunk(long[] chunkCoords)
       throws ZarrException {
     if (!chunkIsInArray(chunkCoords)) {
-      return metadata.allocateFillValueChunk();
+      throw new ZarrException("Attempting to read data outside of the array's domain.");
     }
 
     final String[] chunkKeys = metadata.chunkKeyEncoding.encodeChunkKey(chunkCoords);