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Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you try running the Elasticsearch Check-Up which can resolve issues that cause many errors.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” failed to parse term vectors request. unknown field ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: request.
Advanced users might want to skip right to the common problems section in each concept or try running the Check-Up to analyze Elasticsearch configuration and help resolve this error.
Log Context
Log “failed to parse term vectors request. unknown field [{}]”classname is TermVectorsRequest.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} else if (VERSION.match(currentFieldName; parser.getDeprecationHandler())) { termVectorsRequest.version = parser.longValue(); } else if (VERSION_TYPE.match(currentFieldName; parser.getDeprecationHandler())) { termVectorsRequest.versionType = VersionType.fromString(parser.text()); } else { throw new ElasticsearchParseException("failed to parse term vectors request. unknown field [{}]"; currentFieldName); } } } if (fields.size() > 0) { String[] fieldsAsArray = new String[fields.size()];
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