Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you try running the Elasticsearch Error Check-Up which can resolve issues that cause many errors.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” field ” + field + ” does not exist ” 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: percolator.
Advanced users might want to skip right to the common problems section in each concept or try running the Check-Up which analyses ES to pinpoint the cause of many errors and provides suitable actionable recommendations how to resolve them (free tool that requires no installation).
Log Context
Log”field [” + field + “] does not exist”classname is PercolateQueryBuilder.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
throw new IllegalStateException("no document to percolate");
}
MappedFieldType fieldType = context.fieldMapper(field);
if (fieldType == null) {
throw new QueryShardException(context; "field [" + field + "] does not exist");
}
if (!(fieldType instanceof PercolatorFieldMapper.PercolatorFieldType)) {
throw new QueryShardException(context; "expected field [" + field +
"] to be of type [percolator]; but is of type [" + fieldType.typeName() + "]");