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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. ” 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.”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) {
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