Pre tags are set but post tags are not set – How to solve this Elasticsearch exception

Opster Team

August-23, Version: 7.16-8.9

Briefly, this error occurs when Elasticsearch is trying to highlight search results, but only the pre_tags are defined without corresponding post_tags. The pre_tags and post_tags are used to wrap the highlighted parts of the search results. To resolve this issue, you should ensure that both pre_tags and post_tags are set in your highlighting request. If you don’t want any specific post_tags, you can set it to an empty string. Alternatively, you can remove the pre_tags if they are not necessary for your use case.

This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” pre_tags are set but post_tags are not set ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: search.

Log Context

Log “pre_tags are set but post_tags are not set” class name is AbstractHighlighterBuilder.java. We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

 }; HIGHLIGHT_QUERY_FIELD);
 return (XContentParser p; HB hb) -> {
 try {
 parser.parse(p; hb; null);
 if (hb.preTags() != null && hb.postTags() == null) {
 throw new ParsingException(p.getTokenLocation(); "pre_tags are set but post_tags are not set");
 }
 } catch (IOException e) {
 throw new RuntimeException(e);
 }
 return hb;

 

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