# It is a 404 respones when query a index template which is not exist
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-a-404-respones-when-query-a-index-template-which-is-not-exist/152386
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 14, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-a-404-respones-when-query-a-index-template-which-is-not-exist/152386 "2018-10-14T13:14:42Z")
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### Author:  [@dongming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dongming)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-a-404-respones-when-query-a-index-template-which-is-not-exist/152386/1 "2018-10-14T13:14:42Z")
hi, i am using elasticsearch 6.4.0, when i start my application , i wanna firstly query whether the template exist or not. if it is not exits i will create it .
so when i use the high level client , the code as follows:
```java
GetIndexTemplatesRequest getIndexTemplatesRequest = new GetIndexTemplatesRequest("abc");
GetIndexTemplatesResponse response =
highLevelClient.indices().getTemplate(getIndexTemplatesRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
if (response.getIndexTemplates().stream().filter(e -> e.getName().equals("abc")).count() != 0)
{
//如果template存在则不创建
runLogger.info("index template {} is exist,no need to create template", "abc");
return;
}
```
so , when it will get the error message like this:
```auto
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException: Unable to parse response body
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.parseResponseException(RestHighLevelClient.java:1386) ~[elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.0.jar:6.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequest(RestHighLevelClient.java:1269) ~[elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.0.jar:6.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequestAndParseEntity(RestHighLevelClient.java:1231) ~[elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.0.jar:6.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient.getTemplate(IndicesClient.java:1228) ~[elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.0.jar:6.4.0]
```
when i first setting the template by curl commad ,it will be ok
so , my question is why this happen when there is no template, or just design to do so.
can anyone give some help..
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-a-404-respones-when-query-a-index-template-which-is-not-exist/152386/2 "2018-10-14T14:16:16Z")
Could you try with 6.4.2 and if you can still reproduce open an issue in GitHub?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-a-404-respones-when-query-a-index-template-which-is-not-exist/152386/3 "2018-11-11T14:16:19Z")
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