# How to get data index?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 7, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658 "2012-08-07T09:16:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Bernd\_Fehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernd_Fehling)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/1 "2012-08-07T09:16:16Z")
After two days of trying back and forth to get any data index from a file I
need some help.
my mapping is:
{"base":{}}
my settings are:
{"base":{"settings":{"index.number\_of\_shards":"2","index.number\_of\_replicas":"1","index.version.created":"190899"}}}
what I'm trying to do is just loading a single doc from a file.
curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/](http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/)' -d @mytest.json
the content of mytest.json is:
'{
"myid" : "1234567890",
"myname" : "this is my name",
"mycity" : "this is my city",
"mylocation" : "this is my location"
}'
I only get responses from curl like:
"Warning: Couldn't read data from file "mytest.json", this makes an empty
POST."
{"error":"RemoteTransportException[[node\_2][inet[/129.70.12.37:9301]][index]];
nested: ElasticSearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from
(offset=102, length=0): [0, 0, 0, 110...
...0, 0]]; ","status":400}
If send it from command line if works:
curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/](http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/)' -d '{
> "myid" : "1234567890",
> "myname" : "this is my name",
> "mycity" : "this is my city",
> "mylocation" : "this is my location"
> }'
> {"ok":true,"\_index":"base","\_type":"basedoc","\_id":"OLMhBe\_gT-y\_6NykAIRikg","\_version":1}
Any idea?
Bernd
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### Author:  [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/2 "2012-08-07T09:22:35Z")
Hello!
You have ' characters in the mytest.json file ? If so, try to remove them and try the command you are sending once again.
_--_
Regards,
Rafał Kuć
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) _:: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - ElasticSearch_
After two days of trying back and forth to get any data index from a file I need some help.
my mapping is:
{"base":{}}
my settings are:
{"base":{"settings":{"index.number\_of\_shards":"2","index.number\_of\_replicas":"1","index.version.created":"190899"}}}
what I'm trying to do is just loading a single doc from a file.
curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/](http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/)' -d @mytest.json
the content of mytest.json is:
'{
"myid" : "1234567890",
"myname" : "this is my name",
"mycity" : "this is my city",
"mylocation" : "this is my location"
}'
I only get responses from curl like:
"Warning: Couldn't read data from file "mytest.json", this makes an empty POST."
{"error":"RemoteTransportException[[node\_2][inet[/129.70.12.37:9301]][index]];
nested: ElasticSearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from (offset=102, length=0): [0, 0, 0, 110...
...0, 0]]; ","status":400}
If send it from command line if works:
curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/](http://localhost:9200/base/basedoc/)' -d '{
\> "myid" : "1234567890",
\> "myname" : "this is my name",
\> "mycity" : "this is my city",
\> "mylocation" : "this is my location"
\> }'
{"ok":true,"\_index":"base","\_type":"basedoc","\_id":"OLMhBe\_gT-y\_6NykAIRikg","\_version":1}
Any idea?
Bernd
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### Author:  [@Bernd\_Fehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernd_Fehling)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/3 "2012-08-07T09:35:27Z")
Ahhhh, yes, that was it.
So how would a multi-document file look like?
{
"myid" : "doc1"
}
{
"myid": "doc2"
}
And can I send my own \_id with the document?
Bernd
---
### Author:  [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/4 "2012-08-07T09:48:33Z")
Hello!
Bulk API allows you to send multiple add/delete operations with a
single API call - take a look
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/bulk.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/bulk.html)
As for setting the id, the following command indexes document to test
index, to doc type with id 1:
curl -XPUT [http://localhost:9200/index/doc/1](http://localhost:9200/index/doc/1) -d '{
"title": "sample title"
}'
--
Regards,
Rafał Kuć
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - ElasticSearch
Ahhhh, yes, that was it.
So how would a multi-document file look like?
{
"myid" : "doc1"
}
{
"myid": "doc2"
}
And can I send my own \_id with the document?
Bernd
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### Author:  [@Bernd\_Fehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernd_Fehling)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/5 "2012-08-07T10:05:36Z")
Yes, \_bulk is my friend, thanks.
Bernd
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-data-index/8658/6 "2017-07-06T03:17:29Z")