# Elasticsearch spark having issues indexing parent/child relationships

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-spark-having-issues-indexing-parent-child-relationships/63657>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [October 22, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-spark-having-issues-indexing-parent-child-relationships/63657 "2016-10-22T00:09:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dmitri\_Iourovitski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dmitri\_Iourovitski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dmitri_Iourovitski)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-spark-having-issues-indexing-parent-child-relationships/63657/1 "2016-10-22T00:09:11Z")

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[Here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40186500/elasticsearch-spark-failing-to-index-type-after-parent-is-set) is my SO question pertaining to the issue. Having tried using the REST API Im able to index sucesfully, the issue is in ES-Spark

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**Author:** ![jkuang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jkuang/32/72637_2.png) [@jkuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkuang)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-spark-having-issues-indexing-parent-child-relationships/63657/2 "2017-04-12T22:03:33Z")

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What is the issue? What is the error message?

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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, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-spark-having-issues-indexing-parent-child-relationships/63657/3 "2017-07-06T13:22:11Z")

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