# MapperParsingException on data that should not be parsed but caught by my plugin

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapperparsingexception-on-data-that-should-not-be-parsed-but-caught-by-my-plugin/17909
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 4, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapperparsingexception-on-data-that-should-not-be-parsed-but-caught-by-my-plugin/17909 "2014-06-04T16:30:19Z")
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### Author: ![Laurent\_T](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laurent_t/32/1133_2.png) [@Laurent\_T](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Laurent_T)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapperparsingexception-on-data-that-should-not-be-parsed-but-caught-by-my-plugin/17909/1 "2014-06-04T16:30:19Z")

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Hi,

I've just activated DEBUG mode on my ES logs and i'm seeing this kind of  
exception:

[2014-06-04 15:50:03,539][DEBUG][action.index] [Supercharger] [  
myplugin][0], node[drCfkhlURn2Yz\_SsM6bD3w], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to  
execute [index {[myplugin][client1][69Pb9C\_kT6CF6jdH06WbJw],  
source[{"value":"Cr�py-en-valois"}]}]  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: failed to parse  
[value]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.AbstractFieldMapper.parse(AbstractFieldMapper.java:396)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeValue(ObjectMapper.java:599)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:467)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeObject(ObjectMapper.java:515)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:457)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeObject(ObjectMapper.java:515)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:457)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:507)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:451)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.prepareCreate(InternalIndexShard.java:308)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportIndexAction.java:211)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.performOnPrimary(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:521)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction$1.run(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:419)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)  
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParseException:  
Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x70  
at [Source: [B@2d1b0cf9; line: 1, column: 11]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParser.\_constructError(JsonParser.java:1369)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase.\_reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:599)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3004)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3011)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_decodeUtf8\_3fast(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2833)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_finishString2(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2135)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_finishString(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2084)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.getText(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:270)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.text(JsonXContentParser.java:85)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.textOrNull(AbstractXContentParser.java:107)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper.parseCreateField(StringFieldMapper.java:285)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.AbstractFieldMapper.parse(AbstractFieldMapper.java:385)  
... 15 more

I'm wondering why this is happening and why this error is shown only in  
DEBUG mode.  
This request should actually be targeting my plugin that would JSON-decode  
it using Google Gson.

Is ES doing anything else before forwarding the request to the plugin ?  
We're using version 0.90.3 of ES.

Thanks

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### Author: ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapperparsingexception-on-data-that-should-not-be-parsed-but-caught-by-my-plugin/17909/2 "2014-06-16T12:18:14Z")

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Hey,

first you should really upgrade ES, 0.90.3 is not the freshest one and  
there have been many improvements.  
Second, logging this as DEBUG makes a lot of sense, as otherwise you  
logfiles might explode, just because you are indexing a lot of bogus  
documents. You source of truth should not be the logfile, but the error  
message, which should have been returned upon indexing this JSON document.

It seems, as if the data you sent is not valid UTF-8, but some other  
encoding...

--Alex

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Laurent T. [lau.thoulon@gmail.com](mailto:lau.thoulon@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just activated DEBUG mode on my ES logs and i'm seeing this kind of  
> exception:
> 
> [2014-06-04 15:50:03,539][DEBUG][action.index] [Supercharger]  
> [myplugin][0], node[drCfkhlURn2Yz\_SsM6bD3w], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to  
> execute [index {[myplugin][client1][69Pb9C\_kT6CF6jdH06WbJw],  
> source[{"value":"Cr�py-en-valois"}]}]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: failed to parse  
> [value]  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.AbstractFieldMapper.parse(AbstractFieldMapper.java:396)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeValue(ObjectMapper.java:599)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:467)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeObject(ObjectMapper.java:515)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:457)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.serializeObject(ObjectMapper.java:515)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper.parse(ObjectMapper.java:457)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:507)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper.parse(DocumentMapper.java:451)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.prepareCreate(InternalIndexShard.java:308)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportIndexAction.java:211)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.performOnPrimary(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:521)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction$1.run(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:419)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)  
> Caused by: org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParseException:  
> Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x70  
> at [Source: [B@2d1b0cf9; line: 1, column: 11]  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.JsonParser.\_constructError(JsonParser.java:1369)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase.\_reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:599)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3004)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3011)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_decodeUtf8\_3fast(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2833)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_finishString2(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.\_finishString(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2084)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.getText(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:270)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.text(JsonXContentParser.java:85)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.textOrNull(AbstractXContentParser.java:107)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper.parseCreateField(StringFieldMapper.java:285)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.AbstractFieldMapper.parse(AbstractFieldMapper.java:385)  
> ... 15 more
> 
> I'm wondering why this is happening and why this error is shown only in  
> DEBUG mode.  
> This request should actually be targeting my plugin that would JSON-decode  
> it using Google Gson.
> 
> Is ES doing anything else before forwarding the request to the plugin ?  
> We're using version 0.90.3 of ES.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapperparsingexception-on-data-that-should-not-be-parsed-but-caught-by-my-plugin/17909/3 "2017-07-06T01:22:12Z")

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