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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Field ” + name + ” found an unsupported shape Line ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: .

Log Context
Log “Field [” + name + “] found an unsupported shape Line”classname is GeoShapeUtils.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
public Void visit(org.elasticsearch.geometry.Line line) { if (line.isEmpty() == false) { if (relation == ShapeRelation.WITHIN) { // Line geometries and WITHIN relation is not supported by Lucene. Throw an error here // to have same behavior for runtime fields. throw new QueryShardException(context; "Field [" + name + "] found an unsupported shape Line"); } geometries.add(GeoShapeUtils.toLuceneLine(line)); } return null; }
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