# Bulk operation failing to index first document without attachment field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777 "2020-08-12T19:08:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![russinholi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/russinholi/32/25665_2.png) [@russinholi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/russinholi)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777/1 "2020-08-12T19:08:43Z")

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Hi all I'm using Elasticsearch 7.8 and I'm having an weird situation while using bulk operation to index some documents, that might have or not attachment the them, like if run the following command:

```
curl -X POST "localhost:9200/_bulk?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{"index":{"_id":"1","_index":"t1"}}
{"active_user":false,"content":"Something I wrote", "document_id":"1","topic":"Test1"}
{"index":{"_id":"2","_index":"t1'"}}
{"active_user":false,"content":"Something I wrote", "document_id":"2","topic":"Test2"}
{"index":{"_id":"3","_index":"t1'","pipeline":"attachment"}}
{"data":"<BASE64ENCODEDPDFFILE>", "document_id":"3","topic":"Test PDF"}
`

```

I get this error on ES log:

```
{"type": "server", "timestamp": "2020-08-12T19:00:50,149Z", "level": "DEBUG", "component": "o.e.a.b.T.BulkRequestModifier", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "4e71dc30d5e2", "message": "failed to execute pipeline [_none] for document [t1/_doc/1]", "cluster.uuid": "3YRzz0W_RvGuSiJrIGC3GQ", "node.id": "qlGXQX8uRXum5ZGd9rdPcQ" , 
"stacktrace": ["org.elasticsearch.ingest.IngestProcessorException: ElasticsearchParseException[Error parsing document in field [data]]; nested: 
TikaException[TIKA-198: Illegal IOException from org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser@565cd0c5]; nested: IOException[Page tree root must be a dictionary];"

```

Except for the first document the others 2 are indexed successfully, and it seems like it's waiting a "data" field on the first document, but if I remove the first document the second one raised the same error.

And if I index the first document separated alone on another bulk operation it gets indexed normally.

So it seems to be a problem mixing attachments with other documents.

Can someone help me to understand what I'm doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777/2 "2020-08-12T19:56:41Z")

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IMO this should be reported as a bug. We should not send an empty content to Tika.

That being said, you can add a on\_failure parameter to your pipeline to catch the exception and index the document as is. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/handling-failure-in-pipelines.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/handling-failure-in-pipelines.html)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777/3 "2020-08-12T19:57:43Z")

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This is as far as I can tell [an existing bug](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/60437).

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777/4 "2020-08-12T20:01:11Z")

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Ha right. My answer is wrong 😏

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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:** [September 9, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-operation-failing-to-index-first-document-without-attachment-field/244777/5 "2020-09-09T20:01:13Z")

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