Send JSON/XML/TXT/CSV files to ElasticSearch

Question

I have been trying to send some data in various formats to ElasticSearch running on my computer.

I am running Ubuntu 17 (the latest release) and am unable to do so.

Here are the commands I'm using on Terminal:

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/json/test/2' -d @json.json

I am in the correct directory where the files are. Here is the error I'm getting:

{"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported","status":406}

I've searched online to no avail.

What am I doing wrong?

Sam Upra · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-09 09:16:47Z

9

You can do something like this :

curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
    "user" : "kimchy",
    "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch"
}
'

The reason your request wasn't passing because you didnt specify the Content-Type as JSON. Plus, you should use PUT and not POST :) I copied this request from this documentation : https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-index_.html. Cheers.

answered Jun 9, 2017 at 9:16

Sam Upra

7375 silver badges12 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

3 Comments

Zain Mobhani Over a year ago

Now I'm getting this from Terminal. { "error" : { "root_cause" : [ { "type" : "mapper_parsing_exception", "reason" : "failed to parse" } ], "type" : "mapper_parsing_exception", "reason" : "failed to parse", "caused_by" : { "type" : "not_x_content_exception", "reason" : "Compressor detection can only be called on some xcontent bytes or compressed xcontent bytes" } }, "status" : 400 } curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application curl: (6) Could not resolve host: json_products.json

Sam Upra Over a year ago

I'm not sure I follow.

daparic Over a year ago

Thanks. So i learned from elastic.co/blog/… this new addition enforcing http.content_type.required to be true starting from version 6.0.0

ti7 · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-23 23:34:35Z

2

The error you're seeing is due to the version of the Elastic Search being different. Before -XPUT, add -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

Here is an example:

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPUT 127.0.0.1:9200/

edited Jul 23, 2018 at 23:34

ti7

19.9k8 gold badges50 silver badges87 bronze badges

answered Jul 23, 2018 at 17:25

Bala Krishna

211 bronze badge

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Send JSON/XML/TXT/CSV files to ElasticSearch

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related