From e7f35ab054753ef6ec1bda61e2a6539d37551e89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew E Slaughter <andrew.slaughter@inl.gov>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:54:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Handle cases when 'NEWTON' is not a valid solve_type

(refs #13411)
---
 framework/include/utils/MooseEnumBase.h         | 3 +--
 framework/src/actions/CreateExecutionerAction.C | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/framework/include/utils/MooseEnumBase.h b/framework/include/utils/MooseEnumBase.h
index 7a1de56ed710..a97a577fe368 100644
--- a/framework/include/utils/MooseEnumBase.h
+++ b/framework/include/utils/MooseEnumBase.h
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class MooseEnumBase
   /**
    * Return the complete set of available flags.
    */
-  const std::set<MooseEnumItem> & items() { return _items; }
+  const std::set<MooseEnumItem> & items() const { return _items; }
 
   ///@{
   /**
@@ -137,4 +137,3 @@ class MooseEnumBase
   /// Flag to enable enumeration items not previously defined
   bool _allow_out_of_range;
 };
-
diff --git a/framework/src/actions/CreateExecutionerAction.C b/framework/src/actions/CreateExecutionerAction.C
index 4c5d00df11b3..b2a336d333bf 100644
--- a/framework/src/actions/CreateExecutionerAction.C
+++ b/framework/src/actions/CreateExecutionerAction.C
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ void
 CreateExecutionerAction::setupAutoPreconditioning()
 {
   // If using NEWTON then automatically create SingleMatrixPreconditioner object with full=true
-  if (_moose_object_pars.get<MooseEnum>("solve_type") == "NEWTON")
+  const MooseEnum & solve_type = _moose_object_pars.get<MooseEnum>("solve_type");
+  if ((solve_type.find("NEWTON") != solve_type.items().end()) && (solve_type == "NEWTON"))
   {
     // Action Parameters
     InputParameters params = _action_factory.getValidParams("SetupPreconditionerAction");