# Parse Failure \[No query specified in search request\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-failure-no-query-specified-in-search-request/3237>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 19, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-failure-no-query-specified-in-search-request/3237 "2010-08-19T09:52:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajgamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@ajgamer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajgamer)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-failure-no-query-specified-in-search-request/3237/1 "2010-08-19T09:52:00Z")

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Hi,

I get to see a lot of "Parse Failure [No query specified in search  
request]" errors which i did not see with in version 0.8(I'm using 0.9  
BTW). The complete stack trace is as follows:

[00:40:18,372][DEBUG][action.search.type] [Nova, Cassandra]  
[tournament][1], node[3c5ec3b2-66b8-4ece-8936-0b6075522360], [P],  
s[STARTED]: Failed to execute  
[org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest@23112757]  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchParseException: [tournament][1]:  
query[null],from[0],size[10]: Parse Failure [No query specified in  
search request]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.preProcess(QueryPhase.java:  
67)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.createContext(SearchService.java:  
311)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeQueryPhase(SearchService.java:  
166)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction.sendExecuteQuery(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:  
129)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction  
$AsyncAction.sendExecuteFirstPhase(TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction.java:  
77)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction  
$BaseAsyncAction.performFirstPhase(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:194)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction  
$BaseAsyncAction.access$000(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:80)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction  
$BaseAsyncAction$1.run(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:153)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor  
$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor  
$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

What may be the reason for this error?

P.S: Let me know if you want any more info on this.

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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, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-failure-no-query-specified-in-search-request/3237/2 "2017-07-06T04:20:35Z")

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