Briefly, this error occurs when you’re trying to join two indices in Elasticsearch using a key that is not supported. Elasticsearch only supports joining on certain types of fields, such as keyword or number fields. If you’re trying to join on a text field or a field with a complex data type, you’ll get this error. To resolve this issue, you can either change the field type of the join key to a supported type, or create a new field with a supported type and use that as the join key.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Unsupported join key ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: parser, plugin, join.
Log Context
Log “Unsupported join key” class name is ExpressionBuilder.java. We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
public ListvisitJoinKeys(JoinKeysContext ctx) { try { return ctx != null ? visitList(this; ctx.expression(); Attribute.class) : emptyList(); } catch (ClassCastException ex) { Source source = source(ctx); throw new ParsingException(source; "Unsupported join key "; source.text()); } } @Override public Expression visitArithmeticUnary(ArithmeticUnaryContext ctx) {
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