# Saved objects api
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634 "2018-01-23T09:55:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/1 "2018-01-23T09:55:32Z")
Hi, please help me with my problem:
i am trying to import searches and index-patterns using api from [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11632](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11632). I perform:
> curl -X POST '[http://localhost:5601/api/saved\_objects/search](http://localhost:5601/api/saved_objects/search)' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d "@savedObjectsApiSearch.json"
This json is:
> {"page":1,"per\_page":20,"total":1,"saved\_objects":[{"id":"dc9eed20-e3b8-11e7-86b9-0f428dc7955f","type":"search","version":1,"attributes":{"title":"My Search","description":"","hits":0,"columns":["tier","timeDelta","timeDeltaSecondary","priceDeltaSecondary","priceDelta"],"sort":["datetime","desc"],"version":1,"kibanaSavedObjectMeta":{"searchSourceJSON":"{"index":"c640b120-df22-11e7-86b9-0f428dc7955f","highlightAll":true,"version":true,"query":{"language":"lucene","query":""},"filter":}"}}}]}
That was obtained by another request (from the same api):
> curl "[http://myhost:5601/api/saved\_objects/search](http://myhost:5601/api/saved_objects/search)" \> savedObjectsApiSearch.json
But i have an error:
> {"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"child "attributes" fails because ["attributes" is required]. "page" is not allowed. "per\_page" is not allowed. "total" is not allowed. "saved\_objects" is not allowed","validation":{"source":"payload","keys":["attributes","page","per\_page","total","saved\_objects"]}}
It is worth mentioned that previously (maybe month ago) these requests work properly(
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### Author:  [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/2 "2018-01-23T10:16:49Z")
did you update kibana version in this time (since it worked till now that it doesnt ?)
it works if you just try to add an object (i am not aware about it ever working with direct output from the GET api):
updated savedObjectApiSearch.json:
```auto
{
"attributes": {
"title": "My Search",
"description": "",
"hits": 0,
"columns": ["tier", "timeDelta", "timeDeltaSecondary", "priceDeltaSecondary", "priceDelta"],
"sort": ["datetime", "desc"],
"version": 1,
"kibanaSavedObjectMeta": { "searchSourceJSON":"{"index":"c640b120-df22-11e7-86b9-0f428dc7955f","highlightAll":true,"version":true,"query":{"language":"lucene","query":""},"filter":[]}" }
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/3 "2018-01-23T10:42:40Z")
Thanks for the fast answer.
I edit your json a bit:
> ```
> {
> "attributes": {
> "title": "My Search",
> "description": "",
> "hits": 0,
> "columns": ["tier", "timeDelta", "timeDeltaSecondary", "priceDeltaSecondary", "priceDelta"],
> "sort": ["datetime", "desc"],
> "version": 1,
> "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
> "searchSourceJSON": {
> "index": "7bf170f0-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493",
> "highlightAll": true,
> "version": true,
> "query": {
> "language": "lucene",
> "query": ""
> },
> "filter": []
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> ```
But it stil tells me:
> {"message":"failed to parse [search.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON]: [mapper\_parsing\_exception] failed to parse [search.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON]","st atusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request"}
What it could be about?
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/4 "2018-01-23T10:49:00Z")
Oh, sorry, it seems that i should escape characters in searchSourceJSON.
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/5 "2018-01-23T11:15:15Z")
Thanks a lot! This works:
> **Post Search**
>
> > ```
> > {
> > "attributes": {
> > "title": "My Search",
> > "description": "",
> > "hits": 0,
> > "columns": ["tier", "timeDelta", "timeDeltaSecondary", "priceDeltaSecondary", "priceDelta"],
> > "sort": ["datetime", "desc"],
> > "version": 1,
> > "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": { "searchSourceJSON":"{"index":"c640b120-df22-11e7-86b9-0f428dc7955f","highlightAll":true,"version":true,"query":{"language":"lucene","query":""},"filter":[]}" }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > ```
Please, may be you could provide me with index-pattern posting too?
Using these api i get index-pattern:
> ```
> {
> "attributes": {
> "title": "my-pattern*",
> "timeFieldName": "date",
> "fields": "[A lot of Fields]",
> "fieldFormatMap": "{\"symbol\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/cad21890-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:6718',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Asia%2FBaghdad,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(symbolId,symbol,b1,s1,b2,s2,b3,s3),filters:!(),index:'8bfca640-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'symbol:%22{{value}}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\",\"labelTemplate\":\"{{ **value** }}\"}},\"symbolId\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/cad21890-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:6718',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Asia%2FBaghdad,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(symbolId,symbol,b1,s1,b2,s2,b3,s3),filters:!(),index:'8bfca640-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'symbolId:%22{{value}}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\",\"labelTemplate\":\"{{ **value** }}\"}},\"tier\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/70df35c0-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:6718',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Asia%2FBaghdad,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(tierId,tier,priceDelta,timeDelta,priceDeltaSecondary,timeDeltaSecondary,convergenceDelta),filters:!(),index:'7bf170f0-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'tier:%22{{value}}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\",\"labelTemplate\":\"{{value}}\"}},\"tierId\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/70df35c0-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:6718',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Asia%2FBaghdad,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(tierId,tier,priceDelta,timeDelta,priceDeltaSecondary,timeDeltaSecondary,convergenceDelta),filters:!(),index:'7bf170f0-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'tierId:%22{{ **value** }}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\",\"labelTemplate\":\"{{value}}\"}}}"
> }
> }
>
> ```
When i am trying to post it, there is an error:
> {"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":""value" mus t be an object","validation":{"source":"payload","keys":["value"]}}
I think this **value** error is connected to URL Template - Url format values in my patterns. How to escape it?
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### Author:  [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/6 "2018-01-23T11:57:17Z")
so what i tried:
```auto
curl "http://localhost:5601/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/2081fa30-0021-11e8-986a-11b6eea8e9ce" > ip.json
```
this will export my index pattern to ip.json, which looks like this:
```auto
{"id":"2081fa30-0021-11e8-986a-11b6eea8e9ce","type":"index-pattern","updated_at":"2018-01-23T09:38:12.340Z","version":2,"attributes":{"title":"exception_index","fields":"[{\"name\":\"Date&Time\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Level\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Message.ExceptionList\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Message.Root\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Tags\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Title\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_id\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_index\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_score\",\"type\":\"number\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_source\",\"type\":\"_source\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_type\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false}]"}}
```
now i just remove the id, type,updated\_at and version (i don't change anything else):
```auto
{"attributes":{"title":"exception_index","fields":"[{\"name\":\"Date&Time\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Level\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Message.ExceptionList\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Message.Root\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Tags\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"Title\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_id\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_index\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_score\",\"type\":\"number\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_source\",\"type\":\"_source\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_type\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false}]"}}
```
and then import with:
```auto
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5601/hga/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d "@ip.json"
```
which works as expected
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/7 "2018-01-23T12:20:23Z")
Yes, i have tried smthg like this, but you have not **fieldFormatMap** in you index-pattern (without it everything works well). I think exactly this field causes problem, because i have URl reference to discovery field in such place as:
`"fieldFormatMap": "{\"symbol\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/cad21890-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:6718',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Asia%2FBaghdad,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(symbolId,symbol,b1,s1,b2,s2,b3,s3),filters:!(),index:'8bfca640-f557-11e7-8318-f73036481493',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'symbol:%22\\{\\{value\\}\\}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\", other filds...`
There i have got **symbol** field in my index and it will refere to _/app/kibana#/discover/cad21890-f9db-11e7-baf8-9b07099e3d94_ with different settings, and there is a **value** :
_query:(language:lucene,query:'symbol:%22{{value}}%22')_
that will refer to a link when clicking. I think exactly this **value** causes my error. I have tried to escape _{{value}}_ using double "\" like:
_\{\{value\}\}_
but still it doesnt work.
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/8 "2018-01-23T13:03:23Z")
It seems i pick it up.
Thanks for your time
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### Author:  [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/9 "2018-01-23T13:04:59Z")
could you comment on what you changed/ how you made it work, for future reference if someone else hits the same problems ?
thanks.
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### Author:  [@sanek64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanek64)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/10 "2018-01-23T13:22:55Z")
As usual everything worked itself, like magic.
I dont think, that i change smthg. I get a well-worked index-pattern:
> ```
> {
> "attributes": {
> "title": "my pattern*",
> "timeFieldName": "date",
> "fields": "[{\"name\":\"_id\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_index\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_score\",\"type\":\"number\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_source\",\"type\":\"_source\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":false,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"_type\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"datetime\",\"type\":\"date\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":true},{\"name\":\"symbol\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"symbol.keyword\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":true},{\"name\":\"tier\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":false,\"readFromDocValues\":false},{\"name\":\"tier.keyword\",\"type\":\"string\",\"count\":0,\"scripted\":false,\"searchable\":true,\"aggregatable\":true,\"readFromDocValues\":true}]",
> "fieldFormatMap": "{\"tier\":{\"id\":\"url\",\"params\":{\"urlTemplate\":\"/app/kibana#/discover/dc9eed20-e3b8-11e7-86b9-0f428dc7955f?_g=(refreshInterval:('$$hashKey':'object:5445',display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-6M,interval:'5s',mode:quick,timezone:Europe%2FMinsk,to:now))&_a=(filters:!(),interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'tier:%22{{value}}%22'),sort:!(datetime,desc))\",\"labelTemplate\":\"{{value}}\"}}}"
> }
> }
>
> ```
I thought, as i get it from kibana it doesn't need any interventions, so i posted it and there were not any errors:
> curl -X POST '[http://localhost:5601/hga/api/saved\_objects/index-pattern/](http://localhost:5601/hga/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/)' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d "@ip.json"
I was trying to compare my previous post and current, but dont notice any miscoincedance
Anyway, thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-objects-api/116634/11 "2018-02-20T13:23:26Z")
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