bevyengine/bevy · error · QuerySingleError

No entities fit the query {0}

Error message

No entities fit the query {0}

What it means

thiserror Display for QuerySingleError::NoEntities: a single-result API (Query::single, single_mut, single_inner) found zero matching entities where exactly one was expected. The DebugName in {0} identifies the query type that came up empty.

Source

Thrown at crates/bevy_ecs/src/query/error.rs:32

    /// Either it does not have a requested component, or it has a component which the query filters out.
    #[error("The query does not match entity {0}")]
    QueryDoesNotMatch(Entity, ArchetypeId),
    /// The given [`Entity`] is not spawned.
    #[error("{0}")]
    NotSpawned(#[from] EntityNotSpawnedError),
    /// The [`Entity`] was requested mutably more than once.
    ///
    /// See [`Query::get_many_mut`](crate::system::Query::get_many_mut) for an example.
    #[error("The entity with ID {0} was requested mutably more than once")]
    AliasedMutability(Entity),
}

/// An error that occurs when evaluating a [`Query`](crate::system::Query) or [`QueryState`](crate::query::QueryState) as a single expected result via
/// [`single`](crate::system::Query::single) or [`single_mut`](crate::system::Query::single_mut).
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
pub enum QuerySingleError {
    /// No entity fits the query.
    #[error("No entities fit the query {0}")]
    NoEntities(DebugName),
    /// Multiple entities fit the query.
    #[error("Multiple entities fit the query {0}")]
    MultipleEntities(DebugName),
}

/// An error that occurs when creating a contiguous iterator from a non-dense [`Query`](crate::system::Query) or [`QueryState`](crate::query::QueryState) via
/// [`contiguous_iter`](crate::system::Query::contiguous_iter) or [`contiguous_iter_mut`](crate::system::Query::contiguous_iter_mut).
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
#[error("Cannot contiguously iterate non-dense query {0}")]
pub struct QueryNotDenseError(pub DebugName);

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    use crate::{prelude::World, query::QueryEntityError};
    use bevy_ecs_macros::Component;

    #[test]

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Solutions

1. Use Query::single() -> Option (or get_single) and handle None
2. Ensure the expected entity actually matches the query (components present, filters pass)
3. Spawn/insert the required components before the system runs

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/bevy_ecs/src/query/error.rs:32 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of bevyengine/bevy@396ca72708 (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/22e37642a889e83b. Report an issue: GitHub.