From 2cc5c6df2afcd68a3e6f9668827f490b029d24e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom White <tom.e.white@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:27:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow VCF index creation for stream output.

---
 .../variantcontext/writer/VariantContextWriterBuilder.java     | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/variantcontext/writer/VariantContextWriterBuilder.java b/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/variantcontext/writer/VariantContextWriterBuilder.java
index d809d3aff0..a02703e50d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/variantcontext/writer/VariantContextWriterBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/variantcontext/writer/VariantContextWriterBuilder.java
@@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ else if (STREAM_TYPES.contains(this.outType))
                 writer = createBCFWriter(outPath, outStreamFromFile);
                 break;
             case VCF_STREAM:
-                if (options.contains(Options.INDEX_ON_THE_FLY))
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("VCF index creation not supported for stream output.");
-
                 writer = createVCFWriter(null, outStreamFromFile);
                 break;
             case BCF_STREAM: