# Need Help:Attachment ype in elastic search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-attachment-ype-in-elastic-search/17319
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 2, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-attachment-ype-in-elastic-search/17319 "2014-05-02T10:45:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Aakarsh\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aakarsh_Sharma)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-attachment-ype-in-elastic-search/17319/1 "2014-05-02T10:45:12Z")
I am not able to create index on attachment type.Not sure, what is
happening as i am new to elasticsearch .Hope that you would help resolve my
issues:
Here is what i am doing step by step:
I am using windows and Rest API:
1.installed mapper plugin by using this command:
plugin -install
elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/2.0.0(working fine)
1. restarted elasticsearch(working fine)
3.created index in rest api(working fine):
[http://localhost:9200/documentsx](http://localhost:9200/documentsx) (put).
1. created property for attachment in mapping(working fine):
url:[http://localhost:9200/documentsx/person/\_mapping](http://localhost:9200/documentsx/person/_mapping)
{
"person" : {
"properties" : {
"my\_attachment" : { "type" : "attachment" }
}
}
}
5.downloaded a software from ([http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/](http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/)) to
encode my pdf
(working fine)
6.encode my pdf with the utility above(working fine)
7.kept my pdf in d:\elasticsearch folder(location of elasticsearch in my pc)
8 executed this:(NOT WORKING)
url: [http://localhost:9200/documentsx/person/1(post)](http://localhost:9200/documentsx/person/1(post))
{
"my\_attachment" : {
"\_content\_type" : "application/pdf",
"\_name" : "/sap1.pdf",
"content" : "... base64 encoded attachment ..."
}
}
i am getting this error
:
{
"error": "MapperParsingException[failed to parse]; nested:
JsonParseException[Failed to decode VALUE\_STRING as base64
(MIME-NO-LINEFEEDS): Illegal white space character (code 0x20) as character
#3 of 4-char base64 unit: can only used between units\n at [Source:
[B@16dd7aa; line: 5, column: 29]]; ",
"status": 400
}
btw if i remove the file or put some random filename above in \_name it
gives same error i think it is not reading the file itself.
Where i am going wrong??
Appreciate your help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-attachment-ype-in-elastic-search/17319/2 "2017-07-06T01:32:08Z")