# Mapper Attachments Plugin and SMILE

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapper-attachments-plugin-and-smile/16489>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapper-attachments-plugin-and-smile/16489 "2014-03-20T08:13:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pawel\_Mlynarczyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pawel_mlynarczyk/32/1568_2.png) [@Pawel\_Mlynarczyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pawel_Mlynarczyk)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapper-attachments-plugin-and-smile/16489/1 "2014-03-20T08:13:06Z")

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Hello

I've got a problem working with Mapper Attachments Plugin.

This code

```
val json = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject()
    .field("file").startObject()
      .field("content").value(Base64.encodeBytes(bytes))
    .endObject()
  .endObject()

client.prepareIndex(indexName, typeName)
  .setSource(json).execute().actionGet()

```

works perfectly well, but when I change jsonBuilder to smileBuilder, ES  
throws

org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: failed to parse  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:540)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:462)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.prepareCreate(InternalIndexShard.java:371)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportIndexAction.java:215)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.performOnPrimary(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:556)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction$1.run(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:426)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)  
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParseException:  
Current token (VALUE\_STRING) not VALUE\_EMBEDDED\_OBJECT, can not access as  
binary  
at [Source: [B@3cb66faa; line: -1, column: 98325]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParser.\_constructError(JsonParser.java:1524)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase.\_reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:557)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.dataformat.smile.SmileParser.getBinaryValue(SmileParser.java:1212)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParser.getBinaryValue(JsonParser.java:1131)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.binaryValue(JsonXContentParser.java:183)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.attachment.AttachmentMapper.parse(AttachmentMapper.java:321)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeObject(ObjectMapper.java:517)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:459)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:515)  
... 8 more

and when I try not to encode the file

```
val json = XContentFactory.smileBuilder().startObject()
    .field("file").value(bytes)
  .endObject()

```

or

```
val json = XContentFactory.smileBuilder().startObject()
    .field("file").startObject()
      .field("content").value(bytes)
    .endObject()
  .endObject()

```

ES throws

org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: No content is  
provided.  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.attachment.AttachmentMapper.parse(AttachmentMapper.java:337)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeValue(ObjectMapper.java:616)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:469)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:515)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:462)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.prepareCreate(InternalIndexShard.java:371)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportIndexAction.java:215)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.performOnPrimary(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:556)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction$1.run(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:426)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

I am using SMILE so I am curious if there is some workaround or am I doing  
something wrong?

Thanks in advance

Paweł Młynarczyk

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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, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapper-attachments-plugin-and-smile/16489/2 "2017-07-06T01:41:57Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:41am UTC