From 9d70a7b6329c98d89d3c4b9fdf7fb134680a78ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Quense <monastic.panic@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:56:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [changed] doesn't throw when context is missing.

---
 src/util/reference.js | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/reference.js b/src/util/reference.js
index 47ebd7f5f..39b383e35 100644
--- a/src/util/reference.js
+++ b/src/util/reference.js
@@ -18,18 +18,13 @@ export default class Ref {
     this.prefix = prefix;
     this.isContext = key.indexOf(prefix) === 0
     this.path = this.isContext ? this.key.slice(this.prefix.length) : this.key
-    this._get = getter(this.path)
+    this._get = getter(this.path, true)
     this.map = mapFn || (value => value);
   }
 
   getValue(parent, context) {
     let isContext = this.isContext
-
-    if ((isContext && !context) || (!isContext && !context && !parent))
-      throw new Error('missing the context necessary to cast this value')
-
-    let value = this._get(isContext ? context : (parent || context))
-
+    let value = this._get(isContext ? context : (parent || context) || {})
     return this.map(value)
   }
 }