[es/search] failed: [x_content_parse_exception] [2:4] Unexpected character ('\' (code 92)): was expecting double-quote

thatelasticguy · April 2, 2024, 6:53pm

I am using elastic version 8+ with spring boot elasticsearch 5.2.0 dependency. I want to query my index with Odata $filter. I have configured my parser for Odata and it's generating below query json for following query: $filter=degreeLevel eq masters

{
  "bool" : {
    "must" : [
      {
        "match" : {
          "degreeLevel" : {
            "query" : "masters",
            "operator" : "OR",
            "prefix_length" : 0,
            "max_expansions" : 50,
            "fuzzy_transpositions" : true,
            "lenient" : false,
            "zero_terms_query" : "NONE",
            "auto_generate_synonyms_phrase_query" : true,
            "boost" : 1.0
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
    "boost" : 1.0
  }
}

But from cluster I am getting 400 with following error:

Resolved [UncategorizedElasticsearchException: [es/search] failed: [x_content_parse_exception] [2:4] Unexpected character ('\' (code 92)): was expecting double-quote to start field name
 at [Source: (byte[])"{
  \"bool\" : {
    \"must\" : [
      {
        \"match\" : {
          \"degreeLevel\" : {
            \"query\" : \"masters\",
            \"operator\" : \"OR\",
            \"prefix_length\" : 0,
            \"max_expansions\" : 50,
            \"fuzzy_transpositions\" : true,
            \"lenient\" : false,
            \"zero_terms_query\" : \"NONE\",
            \"auto_generate_synonyms_phrase_query\" : true,
            \"boost\" : 1.0
          }
        }
      }
    ],

dadoonet · April 2, 2024, 8:24pm

Welcome!

You need to use the same version for the client and the server.

thatelasticguy · April 2, 2024, 9:22pm

Here is my elastic cluster version:

{
  "name": "c167c8e1dda1",
  "cluster_name": "docker-cluster",
  "cluster_uuid": "Dn8-_6pySM23uucR0ejdpQ",
  "version": {
    "number": "8.8.1",
    "build_flavor": "default",
    "build_type": "docker",
    "build_hash": "f8edfccba429b6477927a7c1ce1bc6729521305e",
    "build_date": "2023-06-05T21:32:25.188464208Z",
    "build_snapshot": false,
    "lucene_version": "9.6.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version": "7.17.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version": "7.0.0"
  },
  "tagline": "You Know, for Search"
}

And my pom file dependencies for elasticsearch:

<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
			<version>5.2.0</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
					<artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
					<artifactId>
						elasticsearch-rest-client
					</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<version>8.8.1</version>
			<groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
			<artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
			<artifactId>elasticsearch-rest-client</artifactId>
			<version>8.8.1</version>
		</dependency>

I believe I am using same version on both.

dadoonet · April 3, 2024, 7:51am

Could you share the output of:

mvn dependency:tree

DavidTurner · April 3, 2024, 2:13pm

thatelasticguy:

Resolved [UncategorizedElasticsearchException: [es/search] failed: [x_content_parse_exception] [2:4] Unexpected character ('\' (code 92)): was expecting double-quote to start field name
 at [Source: (byte[])"{
  \"bool\" : {
...

This exception means that the request being sent to Elasticsearch contains those \ escape characters, so it isn't valid JSON. I've no idea where that's coming from tho, but it's something in the client. I suspect it might be related to the Spring Boot Elasticsearch usage tho, the maintainers for that library don't visit us here much so you might need to ask for their help directly.

thatelasticguy · April 3, 2024, 7:23pm

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system · April 3, 2024, 7:23pm

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thatelasticguy · April 3, 2024, 7:26pm

Does that mean the request should not contain those forward slashes?
I see the ElasticsearchConfiguration class from org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.client.elc using JacksonJsonMapper class, maybe it's coming from there.

DavidTurner · April 3, 2024, 8:20pm

Correct (except that they're backslashes).

system · May 1, 2024, 8:21pm

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