TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

[melewitz]

Hello Enesto,

Thanks for the humorous intro to elasticsearch!

Running through your examples using python 3.5, I get the type error noted in the headline. Apparently the content type returned from request.get() is now bytes instead of str. In addition, some of the names in your 18+ retrieval set contain unicode characters.

To resolve the problem I changed each reference from res.content to res.content.decode() and everything loads as expected.

Two additional issues exist though:

1. The "Darth Vader" search returns no hits.
2. The "fuzzy_like_this_field" search returns an error:
   RequestError: TransportError(400, 'parsing_exception', 'no [query] registered for [fuzzy_like_this_field]')

I don't know if you intend to maintain this or not, but wanted to thank you for the brief tutorial and let you know about the issues.

Marc

[annajeanine]

Same problem!