Updated: July-20
Elasticsearch Version: 1.7-8.0
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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log “failed to parse term vectors request.” to appear. It’s important to understand the issues related to the log, so to get started, read the general overview on common issues and tips related to the Elasticsearch concepts: request.
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Log Context
Log”failed to parse term vectors request.”classname is TermVectorsRequest.java
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} else if (INDEX.match(currentFieldName; parser.getDeprecationHandler())) {
// the following is important for multi request parsing.
termVectorsRequest.index = parser.text();
} else if (ID.match(currentFieldName; parser.getDeprecationHandler())) {
if (termVectorsRequest.doc != null) {
throw new ElasticsearchParseException("failed to parse term vectors request. " +
"either [id] or [doc] can be specified; but not both!");
}
termVectorsRequest.id = parser.text();
} else if (DOC.match(currentFieldName; parser.getDeprecationHandler())) {
if (termVectorsRequest.id != null) {
Related issues to this log
We have gathered selected Q&A from the community and issues from Github, that can help fix related issues please review the following for further information :
1 Elasticsearch : Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters index : not_analyzed -views 86,691 ,score 72
2 Getting a null_pointer_exception when executing a distributed multi …
