elasticsearch bulk insert JSON file - json

Question

I have the following JSON file
I have used awk to get rid of empty spaces, trailing, next line
awk -v ORS= -v OFS= '{$1=$1}1' data.json
I have added a create request at the top of my data.json followed by \n and the rest of my data.
{"create": {"_index":"socteam", "_type":"products"}}
When I issue bulk submit request, I get the following error
CURL -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_bulk
{
"took": 1,
"errors": true,
"items": [
{
"create": {
"_index": "socteam",
"_type": "products",
"_id": "AVQuGPff-1Y7OIPIJaLX",
"status": 400,
"error": {
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse",
"caused_by": {
"type": "not_x_content_exception",
"reason": "Compressor detection can only be called on some xcontent bytes or compressed xcontent bytes"
}
}
}
}
]
Any idea on what this error mean? I haven't created any mapping, I'm using vanilla elasticsearch

Answer 1

Accordingly to this doc, you have to specify index and type in URL:
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/socteam/products/_bulk?pretty' --data-binary "#data.json"
It works for PUT and POST methods.
And your data.json file should have structure like:
{"index":{"_id":"1"}}
{"name": "John Doe" }
{"index":{"_id":"2"}}
{"name": "Jane Doe" }
Maybe there present another method to import data, but i know just this... Hope it'll help...