# RoutingMissingException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 11, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661 "2012-05-11T13:12:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![nmz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nmz/32/2842_2.png) [@nmz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nmz)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661/1 "2012-05-11T13:12:42Z")

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While indexing the document : name I get RoutingMissingException,  
can any one help?

Exception in thread "Main Thread"  
org.elasticsearch.action.RoutingMissingException: routing is required  
for [abc]/[name]/[A-1401]

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**Author:** ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661/2 "2012-05-11T13:15:35Z")

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Hello!

You probably set

"\_routing" : {  
"required" : true  
}

in you mappings and you don't specify that value during indexing.

--  
Regards,  
Rafał Kuć  
Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Elasticsearch

> While indexing the document : name I get RoutingMissingException,  
> can any one help?

> Exception in thread "Main Thread"  
> org.elasticsearch.action.RoutingMissingException: routing is required  
> for [abc]/[name]/[A-1401]

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**Author:** ![nmz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nmz/32/2842_2.png) [@nmz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nmz)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661/3 "2012-05-14T05:37:53Z")

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ya, I was trying to create a parent-child doc mapping, without  
specifing the values. Didn't notice it 🙂

On May 11, 6:15 pm, Rafał Kuć [r....@solr.pl](mailto:r....@solr.pl) wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> You probably set
> 
> "\_routing" : {  
> "required" : true
> 
> }
> 
> in you mappings and you don't specify that value during indexing.
> 
> --  
> Regards,  
> Rafa³ Kuæ  
> Sematext ::[http://sematext.com/::](http://sematext.com/::) Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Elasticsearch
> 
> > While indexing the document : name I get RoutingMissingException,  
> > can any one help?  
> > Exception in thread "Main Thread"  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.RoutingMissingException: routing is required  
> > for [abc]/[name]/[A-1401]

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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, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/routingmissingexception/7661/4 "2017-07-06T03:29:00Z")

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