# Geoip ingest plugin throws an exception when parsing ignore\_missing property

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-ingest-plugin-throws-an-exception-when-parsing-ignore-missing-property/75914>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-ingest-plugin-throws-an-exception-when-parsing-ignore-missing-property/75914 "2017-02-21T16:26:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![John16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@John16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John16)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-ingest-plugin-throws-an-exception-when-parsing-ignore-missing-property/75914/1 "2017-02-21T16:26:16Z")

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Hello,

I am following documentation  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/master/using-ingest-geoip.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/master/using-ingest-geoip.html)

and using the following processor:  
`{ "geoip" : { "field" : "ip", "target_field": "g", "ignore_missing": "true" } },`

When I am trying to submit ingest pipeline, I get an exception:

`{ "error" : { "root_cause" : [{ "type" : "parse_exception", "reason" : "[ignore_missing] property isn't a boolean, but of type [java.lang.String]", "header" : { "processor_type" : "geoip", "property_name" : "ignore_missing" } } ], "type" : "parse_exception", "reason" : "[ignore_missing] property isn't a boolean, but of type [java.lang.String]", "header" : { "processor_type" : "geoip", "property_name" : "ignore_missing" } }, "status" : 400 }`

But according to docs, `ignore_missing` property has boolean type.

Whats wrong here?

Thanks.

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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:** [March 21, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-ingest-plugin-throws-an-exception-when-parsing-ignore-missing-property/75914/2 "2017-03-21T16:26:20Z")

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