# Getting exception -org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.JsonParseException?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 9, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106 "2011-12-09T05:13:08Z")
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### Author: ![Sam\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Sam\_4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_4)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106/1 "2011-12-09T05:13:08Z")

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Hi

I try to use rabbitmq river for indexing.bulk message format is below:

{ "index" : { "\_index" :idx\_primaryfile, "\_type" :primaryfile, "\_id" :  
3 }}  
{ primaryfile :{"primaryfileID":3,"jobID":  
115028,"StandardizationStatusid":  
3,"AccountName":"intel","AccountNameClean":"intelclean"}}  
{ "create" : { "\_index" :idx\_primaryfile, "\_type" : primaryfile,  
"\_id" :3 }}  
{ primaryfile :{"primaryfileID":3,"jobID":  
115028,"StandardizationStatusid":  
3,"AccountName":"intel","AccountNameClean":"intelclean"}}

i got the following exception:

org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected  
character ('i' (code 105)): expected a valid value (number, String,  
array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')  
at [Source: [B@1fe8714; line: 1, column: 26]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.JsonParser.\_constructError(JsonParser.java:  
1291)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.impl.JsonParserMinimalBase.\_reportError(JsonParserMinimalBase.java:  
385)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.impl.JsonParserMinimalBase.\_reportUnexpectedChar(JsonParserMinimalBase.java:  
306)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser.\_handleUnexpectedValue(Utf8StreamParser.java:  
1581)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.impl.Utf8StreamParser.nextToken(Utf8StreamParser.java:  
385)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.nextToken(JsonXContentParser.java:  
46)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkRequest.add(BulkRequest.java:  
121)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.client.action.bulk.BulkRequestBuilder.add(BulkRequestBuilder.java:  
84)  
at org.elasticsearch.river.rabbitmq.RabbitmqRiver  
$Consumer.run(RabbitmqRiver.java:216)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

please help me,where the problem.

Thanks

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### Author: ![Matt1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matt1/32/2986_2.png) [@Matt1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt1)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106/2 "2011-12-09T05:25:37Z")

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I don't have the mappings you do, but my guess is that the index and type  
names should be strings. That is:

{ "index" : { "\_index" :"idx\_primaryfile", "\_type" :"primaryfile", "\_id" : 3  
}}  
...  
...

Give that a try?

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### Author: ![Sam\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Sam\_4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_4)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106/3 "2011-12-09T05:49:33Z")

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Thanks for reply.it work for me.

On Dec 9, 10:25 am, Matt [matt....@gmail.com](mailto:matt....@gmail.com) wrote:

> I don't have the mappings you do, but my guess is that the index and type  
> names should be strings. That is:
> 
> { "index" : { "\_index" :"idx\_primaryfile", "\_type" :"primaryfile", "\_id" : 3}}
> 
> ...  
> ...
> 
> Give that a try?

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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, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-exception-org-elasticsearch-common-jackson-jsonparseexception/6106/4 "2017-07-06T03:45:59Z")

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