Search call fails with message: 'Unable to parse/serialize body'

[wires]

When executing a query I get the mentioned message. Here is some example code:

var es = require('elasticsearch');
var c = new es.Client({log: 'trace'});

// log r with text s
var ok = function(r) { console.log('succes', r); }
var fail = function(r) { console.log('failed', r); }

// ok this shit works
c.search({
    index: 'places',
    q: 'pants'
}).then(ok, fail);

// fails: message: 'Unable to parse/serialize body'
c.search({
  index: 'places',
  type: 'snackbar',
  body: {
    query: {
      match: {
        heading: 'het'
      }
    }
  }
}).then(ok, fail);

// fails, same.
c.search({
    index: 'places',
    body: { query: { match_all: {} } }
}).then(ok, fail);

This is the result of running it:

node bug.js
Elasticsearch INFO: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  Adding connection to http://localhost:9200/

Elasticsearch DEBUG: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  starting request { method: 'POST',
    path: '/places/_search',
    query: { q: 'pants' } }


Elasticsearch DEBUG: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  starting request { method: 'POST',
    path: '/places/snackbar/_search',
    body: { query: { match: [Object] } },
    query: {} }


Elasticsearch DEBUG: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  starting request { method: 'POST',
    path: '/places/_search',
    body: { query: { match_all: {} } },
    query: {} }


Elasticsearch TRACE: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  curl 'http://localhost:9200/places/_search?q=pants&pretty=true' -XPOST
  <- 200
  {
    "took": 1,
    "timed_out": false,
    "_shards": {
      "total": 3,
      "successful": 3,
      "failed": 0
    },
    "hits": {
      "total": 0,
      "max_score": null,
      "hits": []
    }
  }

Elasticsearch INFO: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  Request complete

succes { body:
   { took: 1,
     timed_out: false,
     _shards: { total: 3, successful: 3, failed: 0 },
     hits: { total: 0, max_score: null, hits: [] } },
  status: 200 }
Elasticsearch TRACE: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  curl 'http://localhost:9200/places/_search?pretty=true' -XPOST -d '{
    "query": {
      "match_all": {}
    }
  }'
  <- 200
  {"took":1,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":3,"successful":3,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max_score":1.0,"hits":[{"_index":"places","_type":"snackbar","_id":"1","_score":1.0, "_source" : {heading:"Het Geveltje", text: "Foo"}}]}}

Elasticsearch INFO: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  Request complete

failed { message: 'Unable to parse/serialize body',
  body: '{"took":1,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":3,"successful":3,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max_score":1.0,"hits":[{"_index":"places","_type":"snackbar","_id":"1","_score":1.0, "_source" : {heading:"Het Geveltje", text: "Foo"}}]}}',
  status: 200 }
Elasticsearch TRACE: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  curl 'http://localhost:9200/places/snackbar/_search?pretty=true' -XPOST -d '{
    "query": {
      "match": {
        "heading": "het"
      }
    }
  }'
  <- 200
  {"took":2,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":3,"successful":3,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max_score":0.19178301,"hits":[{"_index":"places","_type":"snackbar","_id":"1","_score":0.19178301, "_source" : {heading:"Het Geveltje", text: "Foo"}}]}}

Elasticsearch INFO: 2014-01-08T18:48:32Z
  Request complete

failed { message: 'Unable to parse/serialize body',
  body: '{"took":2,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":3,"successful":3,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max_score":0.19178301,"hits":[{"_index":"places","_type":"snackbar","_id":"1","_score":0.19178301, "_source" : {heading:"Het Geveltje", text: "Foo"}}]}}',
  status: 200 }

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here?

[spalger]

Doesn't look like you are doing anything wrong. There is an error in the JSON, in the _source field... Can you try running the requests with curl to see if you get the same response body?

curl 'http://localhost:9200/places/snackbar/_search?pretty=true' -XPOST -d '{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "heading": "het"
    }
  }
}'

[wires]

Good, I thought so. This is the curl output:

{
  "took" : 14,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 3,
    "successful" : 3,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "max_score" : 0.19178301,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "places",
      "_type" : "snackbar",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_score" : 0.19178301, "_source" : {heading:"Het Geveltje", text: "Foo"}
    } ]
  }
}

I don't see a JSON error in the source field? Or do you mean that the error msg implies that there should be one?

[spalger]

The heading and text keys need to be wrapped in quotes for it to be valid json

[spalger]

What version of Elasticsearch are you running?

[spalger]

Looks like you are indexing invalid JSON. Elasticsearch will still parse it sometimes, and when it succeeds it will return the original source to you. elastic/elasticsearch#586

Can you verify that this is the case?

[wires]

Running latest, 0.90.9. But indeed, that was the case, indexed invalid JSON! This was confusing though, missed those quotes. Thanks a lot!

[panthershark]

I ran into this today. We are using a river to load data. I deleted the indexes and the rivers, then re-added them and things were better.

Hopefully that helps others. This thread was very helpful for me.

[lilac]

This helps me too.