Throw error message when trying to update vector index type configuration in a collection

[rthiiyer82]

Background: I have been running latency tests to compare results of hnsw, flat and dynamic vector indexes. While inserting objects I realised , I had incorrectly configured the collection to flat when I had to configure it to dynamic index. I tried to update the vector index config in the collection using the following python code. The script did not throw any error. However, the vector index did not update to dynamic . It continued showing flat index.

from weaviate.classes.config import Reconfigure

# Get the Article collection object
dynamicTestCollection = client.collections.get("Testingdynamicindexings")

# Update the collection configuration
dynamicTestCollection.config.update(
    vectorizer_config= Reconfigure.VectorIndex.dynamic()
)

Actual result: The client did not throw error message stating that vector index cannot be updated from hnsw or flat or dynamic

Expected result: The client should throw an error. Vector index type cannot be changed by changing the config. The objects have be to fully reindex (unfortunately).