Start with a clean index: curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/books/";
You probably have a bad mapping (some docs already indexed?) If you still have problems, please gist a full curl recreation. See http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/ -- David ;-) Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 8 janv. 2014 à 03:10, ZenMaster80 <[email protected]> a écrit : 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]> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a5c1e37f-9472-499c-9499-1475c944f47b%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5d15fcdf-4a0f-4d92-9dd3-f07899d915fe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/E9FE0784-B10E-48AD-9C46-45B44B1513B9%40pilato.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
