# Error parsing json **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 10, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-parsing-json/3646 "2010-12-10T01:45:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anurag\_Phadke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anurag\_Phadke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anurag_Phadke)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-parsing-json/3646/1 "2010-12-10T01:45:03Z")
We are using the REST API to retrieve results from ES, query below: curl -XGET 'http://:9200/\_search?' -d ' { "query" : { "bool" : { "must" : [ { "field" : { "filename" : "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz" } } ] } } }' resulting json: {"\_shards":{"total":21,"successful":21,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max\_score":5.6323466,"hits":[{"\_index":"logs","\_type":"builds","\_id":"YuvVewVoQMiANL3ZqpyXcA","\_score":5.6323466, "\_source" : { "builds" : {"repo": "mozilla-central", "buildtype": "debug", "machine": "talos-r3-fed-037", "buildurl": "[http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2](http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2)", "platform": "linux", "buildid": "20101208014733", "filename": "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz", "revision": "269083132500"}" } }}]}} I tried validating the resulting json @ [http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/](http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/) and it gave the following errors: Error:Invalid object closure. [Code 15, Structure 89] Error:Invalid Braces. [Code 26, Structure 0] Ditto when I try to parse it using perl module for JSON.... Any ideas on what might be happening here? Is the validator wrong or something's wrong with ES? ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-parsing-json/3646/2 "2010-12-10T03:36:25Z")
Can you send a sample json that you index? I think that the json that you index is malformed (missing } at the end), and the ES parser is relaxed about that when indexing, but, when it constructs the result, it will fail to be parsed. On Friday, December 10, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Anurag wrote: > We are using the REST API to retrieve results from ES, query below: > curl -XGET 'http://:9200/\_search?' -d ' > { > "query" : { > "bool" : { > "must" : [ > { > "field" : { "filename" : > "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz" } > } > ] > } > } > }' > > resulting json: > {"\_shards":{"total":21,"successful":21,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max\_score":5.6323466,"hits":[{"\_index":"logs","\_type":"builds","\_id":"YuvVewVoQMiANL3ZqpyXcA","\_score":5.6323466, > "\_source" : { "builds" : {"repo": "mozilla-central", "buildtype": > "debug", "machine": "talos-r3-fed-037", "buildurl": > "[http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2](http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2)", > "platform": "linux", "buildid": "20101208014733", "filename": > "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz", "revision": > "269083132500"}" } }}]}} > > I tried validating the resulting json @ > [http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/](http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/) and it gave the following > errors: > Error:Invalid object closure. [Code 15, Structure 89] > Error:Invalid Braces. [Code 26, Structure 0] > > Ditto when I try to parse it using perl module for JSON.... > Any ideas on what might be happening here? Is the validator wrong or > something's wrong with ES? ---
**Author:** ![Anurag\_Phadke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anurag\_Phadke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anurag_Phadke)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-parsing-json/3646/3 "2010-12-10T04:58:11Z")
thanks shay - my code contained an additional " }.... fixed and ES now works as advertised 🙂 -anurag On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Shay Banon [shay.banon@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > Can you send a sample json that you index? I think that the json that you > index is malformed (missing } at the end), and the ES parser is relaxed > about that when indexing, but, when it constructs the result, it will fail > to be parsed. > > On Friday, December 10, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Anurag wrote: > > We are using the REST API to retrieve results from ES, query below: > curl -XGET 'http://:9200/\_search?' -d ' > { > "query" : { > "bool" : { > ""must" : [ > { > "field" : { "filename" : > "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz" } > } > ] > }} > } > }' > > resulting json: > {"\_shards":{"total":21,"successful":21,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max\_score":5.6323466,"hits":[{"\_index":"logs","\_type":"builds","\_id":"YuvVewVoQMiANL3ZqpyXcA","\_score":5.6323466, > "\_source" : { "builds" : {"repo": "mozilla-central", "buildtype": > "debug", "machine": "talos-r3-fed-037", "buildurl": > "[http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2](http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-linux-debug/1291801653/firefox-4.0b8pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2)", > "platform": "linux", "buildid": "20101208014733", "filename": > "mozilla-central-linux-debug-1291801653-mochitests-3.gz", "revision": > "269083132500"}" } }}]}} > > I tried validating the resulting json @ > [http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/](http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/) and it gave the following > errors: > Error:Invalid object closure. [Code 15, Structure 89] > Error:Invalid Braces. [Code 26, Structure 0] > > Ditto when I try to parse it using perl module for JSON.... > Any ideas on what might be happening here? Is the validator wrong or > something's wrong with ES? ---
**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, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-parsing-json/3646/4 "2017-07-06T04:15:29Z")