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Take a self-guided product tour to see for yourself (no registration required).This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” cannot generate error message for deserialization ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: .

Log Context
Log “cannot generate error message for deserialization”classname is Strings.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
builder.field("error"; "error building toString out of XContent: " + e.getMessage()); builder.field("stack_trace"; ExceptionsHelper.stackTrace(e)); builder.endObject(); return toString(builder); } catch (IOException e2) { throw new ElasticsearchException("cannot generate error message for deserialization"; e); } } } private static XContentBuilder createBuilder(boolean pretty; boolean human) throws IOException {
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