# Problem with json in multi-search request!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 26, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825 "2012-11-26T12:52:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Camilo\_Sierra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/camilo_sierra/32/14397_2.png) [@Camilo\_Sierra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Camilo_Sierra)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825/1 "2012-11-26T12:52:18Z")

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Hi all,

I try to use queries \_msearch but I can't create a valid JSON!

this is what I try:  
/\_msearch

[  
{  
"query": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"term": {  
"creatorId": 6  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}  
},  
{  
"query": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"term": {  
"creatorId": 4  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}  
}  
]

if you have a valid example json to \_msearch, or that you know what is  
wrong in my query. can you help me?

Thanks!  
Camilo

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**Author:** ![Camilo\_Sierra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/camilo_sierra/32/14397_2.png) [@Camilo\_Sierra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Camilo_Sierra)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825/2 "2012-11-26T12:59:07Z")

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of course this is a dummy example. 😉

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**Author:** ![radu\_gheorghe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/radu_gheorghe/32/556_2.png) [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825/3 "2012-11-26T13:05:48Z")

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Hi,

Instead of trying to put all your queries in the same JSON, you need to put  
them one after another, separated by a newline. And before each query, you  
need to put another json with headers, such as index name, although you can  
leave that header empty if you will. Take a look here for details:

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An example could look like this:

$ cat request  
{}  
{ "query": { "bool": {"must": [{"term": {"creatorId": 6}}]}}}  
{"index": "test\_index"}  
{"query": {"bool": {"must": [{"term": {"creatorId": 4}}]}}}  
$ curl localhost:9200/\_msearch?pretty=true --data-binary @request

## Best regards, Radu

[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Camilo Sierra [camilo.sierrax@gmail.com](mailto:camilo.sierrax@gmail.com)wrote:

> of course this is a dummy example. 😉
> 
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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, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-json-in-multi-search-request/9825/4 "2017-07-06T03:02:56Z")

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