Search call fails with message: 'Unable to parse/serialize body' about elasticsearch-js HOT 8 CLOSED

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"
    }
  }
}'

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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?

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

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What version of Elasticsearch are you running?

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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?

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

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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.

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This helps me too.

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