# Elasticsearch : Unknown key for a VALUE\_STRING in \[scroll\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 21, 2017, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264 "2017-09-21T06:01:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Saurab\_Dahal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Saurab\_Dahal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saurab_Dahal)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264/1 "2017-09-21T06:01:01Z")

</div>

Elasticsearch scroll api gives me this error

```
{
   "error": {
      "root_cause": [
         {
            "type": "parsing_exception",
            "reason": "Unknown key for a VALUE_STRING in [scroll].",
            "line": 2,
            "col": 15
         }
      ],
      "type": "parsing_exception",
      "reason": "Unknown key for a VALUE_STRING in [scroll].",
      "line": 2,
      "col": 15
   },
   "status": 400
}

```

my code to get documents using scroll api is

```
GET index/type/_search?scroll=1m
{
    "size": 1000, 
   "query": {
      "match_all": {}
   }
}

```

this gives me nice result with "\_scroll\_id"

```
{
   "_scroll_id": "DnF1ZXJ5VGhlbkZldGNoBQAAAAAAAB1dFmJRbm9UR3h4UUFTVHFzV1dJMHpuOVEAAAAAAAAdXxZiUW5vVEd4eFFBU1Rxc1dXSTB6bjlRAAAAAAAAHV4WYlFub1RHeHhRQVNUcXNXV0kwem45UQAAAAAAAB1gFmJRbm9UR3h4UUFTVHFzV1dJMHpuOVEAAAAAAAAdYhZiUW5vVEd4eFFBU1Rxc1dXSTB6bjlR",
   "took": 37,
   "timed_out": false,
   "_shards": {
      "total": 5,
      "successful": 5,
      "failed": 0
   },

```

now according to the documentation I should do like this

```
GET /_search
{
    "scroll": "1m",
    "scroll_id": "DnF1ZXJ5VGhlbkZldGNoBQAAAAAAAB1dFmJRbm9UR3h4UUFTVHFzV1dJMHpuOVEAAAAAAAAdXxZiUW5vVEd4eFFBU1Rxc1dXSTB6bjlRAAAAAAAAHV4WYlFub1RHeHhRQVNUcXNXV0kwem45UQAAAAAAAB1gFmJRbm9UR3h4UUFTVHFzV1dJMHpuOVEAAAAAAAAdYhZiUW5vVEd4eFFBU1Rxc1dXSTB6bjlR"
}

```

and this is giving me above error. Am I using scroll api in a wrong way ? ES version is 5.5.1 and kibana version is 5.5.1. I am using kibana to access ES server.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 21, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264/2 "2017-09-21T06:12:36Z")

</div>

Should be `POST` or `GET``/_search/scroll` instead.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Saurab\_Dahal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Saurab\_Dahal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saurab_Dahal)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264/3 "2017-09-21T06:27:01Z")

</div>

ah, that typo killed my two hours. Thanks for pointing that out

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unknown-key-for-a-value-string-in-scroll/101264/4 "2017-10-19T06:27:15Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.