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Fixing ElasticSearch 'no [query] registered for [query]'

Problem:

You want to run a query in ElasticSearch, but you get an error message like

elasticsearch_no_query_registered.txt
elasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: RequestError(400, 'parsing_exception', 'no [query] registered for [query]')

Solution

In your query body, you have two "query" objects nested in each other. Remove the outer "query", keeping only the inner one.

Example:

Incorrect:

example.json
{
    "query": {
        "query": {
            "match": {
                "my_field": "my_value"
            }
        }
    }
}

Correct:

example.json
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "my_field": "my_value"
        }
    }
}
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