# ActionRequestValidationException thrown for large index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequestvalidationexception-thrown-for-large-index/5848>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 11, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequestvalidationexception-thrown-for-large-index/5848 "2011-11-11T18:04:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![js0n](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/js0n/32/3075_2.png) [@js0n](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/js0n)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequestvalidationexception-thrown-for-large-index/5848/1 "2011-11-11T18:04:16Z")

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I've been having issues with searching after batch loading a large amount of data into an elasticsearch index ([https://gist.github.com/1356966](https://gist.github.com/1356966)).

The following except is reported by the server response:  
ActionRequestValidationException[Validation Failed: 1: search source is missing;]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequestvalidationexception-thrown-for-large-index/5848/2 "2017-07-06T03:49:04Z")

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