Secondary Index on the presence of an optional message field

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First of all, sorry for the basic question, but this was not clear to me from the documentation. If I have a top-level message/record with optional message fields (e.g. in a oneof)

message TopLevel {
   <other fields>
   message A {}
   message B {}
   message C {}
   oneof subtype {
     A a = n;
     B b = n+1;
     C c = n+2;
   } 
}

and I wanted to support a Query like (e.g. in Java)

RecordQuery.newBuilder().
        setRecordType("TopLevel".
        setFilter(
            Query.and(
                <some condition on other fields>,
                Query.not(Query.field("a").isNull())
            )).build();

with a secondary index, would I merely create a value type index on the field like below?

metadataBuilder.addIndex("TopLevel", new Index("TopLevel$a", field("a"), IndexTypes.VALUE));

I.e. is the proto bytestring U null indexed in this case?

P.s. I noticed that there is an Index constructor that takes a valueExpression argument, but no documentation is provided.