Introduction
Welcome to uptasticsearch! This package exists to help R users connect to elasticsearch databases smoothly and easily. However, sometimes things go wrong! This FAQ is an ongoing project to catalog common errors and questions people have about this system, and provide simple and useful answers.
If your question is not presented here, and google doesn’t help, go ahead and post an issue on github so somebody can help you.
Questions
Query Syntax Problems
Developing queries of your own for elasticsearch is sometimes tough.
If you are finding that the queries you write are not valid, there may
be many reasons. You are probably in this situation if your error is
Bad Request (HTTP 400) or similar.
Query Returns No Results
After you have verified with certainty that your query is
appropriately structured and written, you might still have challenges.
What to do if you get the error
Query is syntactically valid but 0 documents were matched. Returning NULL
?
Troubleshooting Guide
- Are your search terms named and described correctly? All spelled right?
- Are you looking in the correct index? Perhaps your document is in a different one.
- If you are passing dates or datetimes, are the formats of your input formatted just right?
- IMPORTANT: Are the terms you are using indexed? This is a tricky one. Your term may exist and have data in the documents, but if your particular elasticsearch database has not indexed that term, you won’t be able to use it for searching. This does not mean that the document/s aren’t there, but just that you can’t use that term for searching.
- Are you sure the document exists? It might just not be there.