# Elastic6.7 \<search\> 'Unknown key for a START\_OBJECT in \[filter\].'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic6-7-search-unknown-key-for-a-start-object-in-filter/187964>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 28, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic6-7-search-unknown-key-for-a-start-object-in-filter/187964 "2019-06-28T03:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![9527q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/c0e974/32.png) [@9527q](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/9527q)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic6-7-search-unknown-key-for-a-start-object-in-filter/187964/1 "2019-06-28T03:49:55Z")

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I'm from Py3 and es6.7 in my macOS. When I try to search and it raise an error.

```
body = {
    "query": {"match": {"doc.name": s_key}},
    "filter": {"term": {"doc.is_vaild": True}}
}

print(es.search(index='crm_brand', doc_type='_doc', body=body))

```

Error:

`elasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: RequestError(400, 'parsing_exception', 'Unknown key for a START_OBJECT in [filter].')`

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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:** [June 28, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic6-7-search-unknown-key-for-a-start-object-in-filter/187964/2 "2019-06-28T05:51:09Z")

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Depending on what you want to do you need to use `post_filter` IIRC or a `bool` query instead.

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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 26, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic6-7-search-unknown-key-for-a-start-object-in-filter/187964/3 "2019-07-26T05:51:11Z")

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