Failed to derive xcontent on template queries

[micpalmia]

With ES 1.4 on my local (iOS) machine with all the default settings, I get a SearchPhaseExecutionException when trying to execute a template query.

Please find the described steps below.

# store the search template
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/_search/template/testSearch" -d'
{
    "template": {"query": {"match_all": {}}}
}'

# it seems to be correctly stored
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_search/template/testSearch"

# using the template endpoint works fine
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/.scripts/_search/template" -d'
{
    "template": {
        "id": "testSearch" 
    }
}'

# but using a completely equivalent template query doesn't
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/.scripts/_search" -d'
{
    "query": {
        "template": {
            "query": "testSearch", 
            "params" : {}
        }
    }
}'

Please find the complete stack trace below

[2015-01-28 12:35:20,513][DEBUG][action.search.type       ] [Yukon Jack] [.scripts][0], node[Yax3V7rFQt2UQcQoYfDy-Q], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to execute [org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest@2c968bee]
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchParseException: [.scripts][0]: from[-1],size[-1]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{
    "query": {
        "template": {
            "query": "testSearch",
            "params" : {}
        }
    }
}
]]
    at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.parseSource(SearchService.java:681)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.createContext(SearchService.java:537)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.createAndPutContext(SearchService.java:509)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeFetchPhase(SearchService.java:350)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$11.call(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:333)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$11.call(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:330)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$23.run(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:559)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException: Failed to derive xcontent from org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.PagedBytesReference@fb05139b
    at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory.xContent(XContentFactory.java:259)
    at org.elasticsearch.index.query.TemplateQueryParser.parse(TemplateQueryParser.java:85)
    at org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryParseContext.parseInnerQuery(QueryParseContext.java:277)
    at org.elasticsearch.index.query.IndexQueryParserService.innerParse(IndexQueryParserService.java:382)
    at org.elasticsearch.index.query.IndexQueryParserService.parse(IndexQueryParserService.java:281)
    at org.elasticsearch.index.query.IndexQueryParserService.parse(IndexQueryParserService.java:276)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryParseElement.parse(QueryParseElement.java:33)
    at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.parseSource(SearchService.java:665)
    ... 9 more
[2015-01-28 12:35:20,515][DEBUG][action.search.type       ] [Yukon Jack] All shards failed for phase: [query_fetch]

[dadoonet]

I think you should do something like:

PUT test

DELETE _search/template/testSearch

POST _search/template/testSearch
{
    "template": {"query": {"match_all": {}}}
}

GET _search/template/testSearch

GET test/_search/template
{
    "template": {
        "id": "testSearch" 
    }
}

See http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html

[micpalmia]

I appreciate the fact that the template endpoint (referenced in the page you linked) works, but the template query (link attached to my first message) doesn't, even with your set up.

After the set up in your message, you can try the following to check that it's not working.

curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/test/_search" -d'
{
    "query": {
        "template": {
            "query": "testSearch", 
            "params" : {}
        }
    }
}'

[clintongormley]

@micpalmia use id instead of query - I've just pushed a fix to the docs