# Percolator on nested object shard failure
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368 "2014-05-06T12:19:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@razafinr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/razafinr)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368/1 "2014-05-06T12:19:54Z")
Hi!
I am using elasticsearch 1.1.
Normally in this version, percolator on nested documents should work.
Although, i am trying to do this but I get the following error:
failures: [
```
{
index: test
shard: 4
reason: BroadcastShardOperationFailedException[[test][4] ];nested
```
: PercolateException[failed to percolate]; nested:
ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[Nothing to percolate];
}
```
]
```
I have the following percolator (sorry elasticsearch head removed me all
the quotes):
{
```
_index: test
_type: .percolator
_id: 27
_version: 1
_score: 1
_source: {
query: {
filtered: {
query: {
match_all: { }
}
filter: {
nested: {
filter: {
term: {
city: london
}
}
path: location
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
And while trying to percolate this document I am getting the error:
{
...
"location": {
"date": "2014-05-05T15:07:58",
"namedplaces": {
"city": "london"
}
}
}
Any idea why it doesn't work ?
**EDIT :**
In elasticsearch log I got more precision about the error:
[2014-05-06 13:33:48,972][DEBUG][action.percolate] [Tomazooma] [
test][2], node[H42BBxajRs2w2NmllMnp7g], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to execute [
org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.PercolateReque
st@7399452e]
org.elasticsearch.percolator.PercolateException: failed to percolate
at org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.
shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:198)
at org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.
shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:55)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.
TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$2.run(
TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:226)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(
ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(
ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException:
Nothing to percolate
at org.elasticsearch.percolator.PercolatorService.percolate(
PercolatorService.java:187)
at org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.
shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:194)
... 5 more
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### Author:  [@mvg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvg)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2014, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368/2 "2014-05-09T10:18:40Z")
You would only get this error if the "doc" part in the request body is
missing of the percolate request. Can you share the entire percolate
request?
On 6 May 2014 18:54, razafinr [raz.rado@gmail.com](mailto:raz.rado@gmail.com) wrote:
> I am using elasticsearch 1.1.
>
> Normally in this version, percolator on nested documents should work.
>
> Although, i am trying to do this but I get the following error:
>
> ```
> failures: [
>
> {
> index: test
> shard: 4
> reason: BroadcastShardOperationFailedException[[test][4] ];
>
> ```
>
> nested: PercolateException[failed to percolate]; nested:
> ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[Nothing to percolate];
> }
>
> ```
> ]
>
> ```
>
> I have the following percolator (sorry elasticsearch head removed me all
> the
> quotes):
>
> ```
> {
>
> _index: test
> _type: .percolator
> _id: 27
> _version: 1
> _score: 1
> _source: {
> query: {
> filtered: {
> query: {
> match_all: { }
> }
> filter: {
> nested: {
> filter: {
> term: {
> city: london
> }
> }
> path: location
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> ```
>
> And while trying to percolate this document I am getting the error:
>
> ```
> {
> ...
> "location": {
> "date": "2014-05-05T15:07:58",
> "namedplaces": {
> "city": "london"
> }
> }
> }
>
> ```
>
> Any idea why it doesn't work ?
>
> **EDIT :**
>
> In elasticsearch log I got more precision about the error:
>
> ```
> [2014-05-06 13:33:48,972][DEBUG][action.percolate] [Tomazooma]
>
> ```
>
> [test][2], node[H42BBxajRs2w2NmllMnp7g], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to execute
> [org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.PercolateReque
> st@7399452e]
> org.elasticsearch.percolator.PercolateException: failed to percolate
> at
>
> org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:198)
> at
>
> org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:55)
> at
>
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$2.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:226)
> at
>
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> at
>
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
> Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException:
> Nothing to percolate
> at
>
> org.elasticsearch.percolator.PercolatorService.percolate(PercolatorService.java:187)
> at
>
> org.elasticsearch.action.percolate.TransportPercolateAction.shardOperation(TransportPercolateAction.java:194)
> ... 5 more
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### Author:  [@razafinr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/razafinr)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368/3 "2014-05-13T15:24:25Z")
Thanks it was the problem. My query was missing the "doc" field.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-on-nested-object-shard-failure/17368/4 "2017-07-06T01:29:45Z")