# Failed to put mappings on indices while using java **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-put-mappings-on-indices-while-using-java/21030 "2014-12-02T12:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stephen\_maina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@stephen\_maina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephen_maina)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-put-mappings-on-indices-while-using-java/21030/1 "2014-12-02T12:15:27Z")
Hi, Full disclosure im a newb at this: I have been trying to create an index using the below code: private boolean createIndices( ) { String indexName="279" String typeName="badge\_type"; String mapping={"badge\_type": {"\_type":{"store":"true"}," - ""\_index":{"enabled":"true"}," - ""\_id":{"path":"badge\_type\_id"}," - ""dynamic":"strict"," - ""properties":{ "badge\_type\_id":{"type":"string","store":"true","index":"not\_analyzed"}," - ""name":{"type":"string","store":"true","index\_analyzer":"autocomplete","search\_analyzer":"standard"}," - ""description":{"type":"string","store":"true"} " - " } } }; try { if (!NodeOperation.INSTANCE.getNode().client().admin().indices() .prepareExists(indexName).execute().actionGet().isExists()) { System.out.println("index does not exist, create it and : " - indexName); log.trace("CREATE INDEX: " + indexName); String settings = "{"aliases": { " - ""content": {}, "school": {}}," - ""settings":{" - ""index":{" - """+indexName+"":{" - ""analysis":{"analyzer" : [{" - ""autocomplete" : { " - ""type" :"custom"," - ""tokenizer":"keyword"," - ""filter":["lowercase", "autocomplete\_filter"] } " - "},{" - ""email\_custom" : { " - ""type" :"custom"," - ""tokenizer":"uax\_url\_email"," - ""filter":["lowercase", "autocomplete\_filter"] } " - "}],"filter":" - "{"autocomplete\_filter":{ "type" :"edge\_ngram"," - ""min\_gram":"2"," + ""max\_gram":20" + " }" - " }" + " } " + "}}}}"; CreateIndexRequestBuilder irb = NodeOperation.INSTANCE .getNode().client().admin().indices() .prepareCreate(indexName).setSource(settings); irb.execute().actionGet(); } if (!isTypeExist(indexName, typeName)) { System.out .println("type does not exist create it: " + typeName); PutMappingResponse res = NodeOperation.INSTANCE.getNode() .client().admin().indices() .preparePutMapping(indexName).setType(typeName) .setSource(mapping).setIndices(indexName).execute() .actionGet(); return res.isAcknowledged(); } else { return true; } } catch (Exception e) { e.getMessage(); } return false; } the index is created with the following setings: { "279" : { "settings" : { "index" : { "settings" : { "analysis" : { "filter" : { "autocomplete\_filter" : { "type" : "edge\_ngram", "min\_gram" : "2", "max\_gram" : "20" } }, "analyzer" : [ { "autocomplete" : { "filter" : ["lowercase", "autocomplete\_filter"], "type" : "custom", "tokenizer" : "keyword" } }, { "email\_custom" : { "type" : "custom", "filter" : ["lowercase", "autocomplete\_filter"], "tokenizer" : "uax\_url\_email" } } ] } }, "number\_of\_shards" : "5", "number\_of\_replicas" : "1", "version" : { "created" : "1030499" }, "uuid" : "T4a3\_p3GSkKpui5zKhfSqQ" } } } } but mapping cannot be added to the type, i get the following error: [2014-12-02 15:11:32,828][INFO][cluster.metadata] [War Eagle] [279] creating index, cause [api], shards [5]/[1], mappings [] [2014-12-02 15:11:34,229][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.mapping.put] [War Eagle] failed to put mappings on indices [[279]], type [badge\_type] org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: Analyzer [autocomplete] not found for field [name] at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.TypeParsers.parseField(TypeParsers.java:220) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper$TypeParser.parse(StringFieldMapper.java:153) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper$TypeParser.parseProperties(ObjectMapper.java:289) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper$TypeParser.parseObjectOrDocumentTypeProperties(ObjectMapper.java:217) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.RootObjectMapper$TypeParser.parse(RootObjectMapper.java:136) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapperParser.parse(DocumentMapperParser.java:209) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapperParser.parseCompressed(DocumentMapperParser.java:190) at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperService.parse(MapperService.java:440) at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaDataMappingService$4.execute(MetaDataMappingService.java:503) at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$UpdateTask.run(InternalClusterService.java:328) at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:153) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) any help to finding out where im going wrong will be greatly appreciated. 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**Author:** ![stephen\_maina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@stephen\_maina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephen_maina)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-put-mappings-on-indices-while-using-java/21030/2 "2014-12-02T14:39:02Z")
i found my error, it was in the JSON this is the format that it should have: { ``` "settings":{ "index":{ "analysis": { "filter": { "autocomplete_filter": { "type": "edge_ngram", "min_gram": "2", "max_gram": "20" } }, "analyzer": { "auto_complete": { "type": "custom", "tokenizer": "keyword", "filter": [ "lowercase", "autocomplete_filter" ] } , "email_custom": { "type": "custom", "tokenizer": "uax_url_email", "filter": [ "lowercase", "autocomplete_filter" ] } } } ``` } } } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a912c56a-3983-4572-9c7a-683b77ca663e%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a912c56a-3983-4572-9c7a-683b77ca663e%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-put-mappings-on-indices-while-using-java/21030/3 "2017-07-06T00:46:36Z")