Great, Do you know why I am getting  

{"error":"MapperParsingException[failed to parse]; nested: 
JsonParseException[Unrecognized token 'life': was expecting ('true', 
'false' or 'null')\n at [Source: [B@5c9a9d06; line: 1, column: 35]]; 
","status":400}

data:

{“books”:[{“name”:”life in heaven”,”author”:”Mike Smith”},{“name”:”get 
rich”,”author”:”Joe Shmoe”},{“name”:”luxury properties”,”author”:”Linda 
Jones”}]}



On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 9:06:01 PM UTC-5, Ivan Brusic wrote:
>
> The JSON file is used by the curl command, so in your example it should be 
> in the same directory in which you executed the command (current directory).
>
> -- 
> Ivan
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM, ZenMaster80 <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am just starting with ElasticSearch, I would like to know how to index 
>> a simple json document "books.json" that has the following in it: Where do 
>> I place the document? I placed it in root directory of elastic search and 
>> in /bin folder..
>>
>> {“books”:[{“name”:”life in heaven”,”author”:”Mike Smith”},{“name”:”get 
>> rich”,”author”:”Joe Shmoe”},{“name”:”luxury properties”,”author”:”Linda 
>> Jones”]}}
>>
>>
>> $ curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/books/book/1"; -d @books.json
>>
>> Warning: Couldn't read data from file "books.json", this makes an empty 
>> POST.
>>
>> {"error":"MapperParsingException[failed to parse, document is 
>> empty]","status":400}
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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