# Odd error creating index via Rest API (ES 6.2.2)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-error-creating-index-via-rest-api-es-6-2-2/132602
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 20, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-error-creating-index-via-rest-api-es-6-2-2/132602 "2018-05-20T20:05:15Z")
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### Author:  [@atulsudhalkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atulsudhalkar)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-error-creating-index-via-rest-api-es-6-2-2/132602/1 "2018-05-20T20:05:16Z")
I'm trying to use the ES High-level Rest Client to integrate to ES (6.2.2) from my Java code. Here's the test class I wrote to re-create the problem. The code works as written, but the commented out code doesn't work. But I patterned it faithfully on the manual: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/6.2/java-rest-high-create-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/6.2/java-rest-high-create-index.html)
## Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated!
```
@Test
public void DoCreateJobIndex () throws IOException {
RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient (
RestClient.builder (
new HttpHost (esHost, 0, "https")));
String index = "my_job_profiles";
CreateIndexRequest request = new CreateIndexRequest (index);
request.source("{\n" +
" \"settings\":{\"number_of_shards\":1},\n" +
" \"mappings\":{\n" +
" \"JobProfileDTO\":{\n" +
" \"properties\":{\n" +
" \"jobDetails\":{\n" +
" \"type\":\"text\",\n" +
" \"analyzer\":\"english\"\n" +
" }\n" +
" }\n" +
" }\n" +
" }\n" +
"}", XContentType.JSON);
```
// request.settings (Settings.builder ()
// .put ("index.number\_of\_shards", 1)
// .put ("index.number\_of\_replicas", 1));
// request.mapping (index,
// "{\n" +
// " "JobProfileDTO":{\n" +
// " "properties":{\n" +
// " "jobDetails":{\n" +
// " "type":"text",\n" +
// " "analyzer":"english"\n" +
// " }\n" +
// " }\n" +
// " }\n" +
// "}",
// XContentType.JSON
// );
```
request.timeout (TimeValue.timeValueMinutes (1));
CreateIndexResponse response = client.indices ().create (request);
logger.info (response.toString ());
client.close ();
}
```
The above code works (looked up the index via postman):
{
"my\_job\_profiles": {
"aliases": {},
"mappings": {
"JobProfileDTO": {
"properties": {
"jobDetails": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "english"
}
}
}
},
"settings": {
"index": {
"creation\_date": "1526843609577",
"number\_of\_shards": "1",
"number\_of\_replicas": "1",
"uuid": "xr2LC2vxQpGbHw3hBbgm8w",
"version": {
"created": "6020299"
},
"provided\_name": "my\_job\_profiles"
}
}
}
}
But the commented-out code gets the following exception:
ElasticsearchStatusException[Elasticsearch exception [type=mapper\_parsing\_exception, reason=Failed to parse mapping [my\_job\_profiles]: Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [JobProfileDTO : {properties={jobDetails={analyzer=english, type=text}}}]]
]; nested: ElasticsearchException[Elasticsearch exception [type=mapper\_parsing\_exception, reason=Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [JobProfileDTO : {properties={jobDetails={analyzer=english, type=text}}}]]];
---
### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-error-creating-index-via-rest-api-es-6-2-2/132602/2 "2018-05-26T11:45:51Z")
> [@atulsudhalkar](#):
>
> // request.mapping (index,
> // "{\n" +
> // " "JobProfileDTO":{\n" +
> // " "properties":{\n" +
> // " "jobDetails":{\n" +
> // " "type":"text",\n" +
> // " "analyzer":"english"\n" +
> // " }\n" +
> // " }\n" +
> // " }\n" +
> // "}",
> // XContentType.JSON
> // );
The first argument of the request.mapping() function takes the mapping type, not the index (see javadocs). So this would be:
```auto
request.mapping("JobProfileDTO",
"{ \"properties\": {\"jobDetails\":{ \"type\":\"text\", \"analyzer\":\"english\"}}}",
XContentType.JSON
);
```
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-error-creating-index-via-rest-api-es-6-2-2/132602/3 "2018-06-23T11:45:53Z")
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