# Error "Failed to derive xcontent"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-failed-to-derive-xcontent/17833>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-failed-to-derive-xcontent/17833 "2014-05-30T12:05:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![shashankg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@shashankg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shashankg)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-failed-to-derive-xcontent/17833/1 "2014-05-30T12:05:26Z")

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I am a newbie to ElasticSearch and tried this first one via curl  
curl -XPUT "[http://localhost:9200/movies/movie/1](http://localhost:9200/movies/movie/1)" -d'  
{  
"title": "The Godfather",  
"director": "Francis Ford Coppola",  
"year": 1972,  
"genres": ["Crime", "Drama"]  
}'  
But I am getting the following error  
{"error":"MapperParsingException[failed to parse]; nested: ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from (offset=0, length=1): [39]]; ","status":400}curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1 url: (3) [globbing] bad range in column 72

Could you please tell me where I went wrong

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**Author:** ![ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticSearch_Users_)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-failed-to-derive-xcontent/17833/2 "2014-05-30T18:19:02Z")

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It seems to work for me. I'd try typing this character by character  
straight into the command line just to make sure nothing "invisible" is  
interfering with the text. This sometimes happens when I copy-paste from a  
different app into the shell command line.

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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, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-failed-to-derive-xcontent/17833/3 "2017-07-06T01:25:42Z")

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