Elasticsearch-js: TypeError:cannot read property 'requst' of undfined

Created on 27 Jul 2017 · 4Comments · Source: elastic/elasticsearch-js

Hi there,
I'm using your package, to add a log into kibana, and I get this error:

TypeError cannot read property 'request' of undefined
at exec ...node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/client_action.js : 364:19
at action ... node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/client_action.js : 61:16
and the rest of the stack is mine.

I use the index function within the client object.

elasticsearch:13.2
node: 8.1.2

hope to solve it. thanks!

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the only request property in the client_action is this.request, which means the function that you're accessing has probably lost this context. Are you calling the method like client.index() or have you assigned index to a separate value and called it directly, like

var index = client.index;
index()

If it's the later then you need to bind the this context to the index function with something like the .bind() method:

var index = client.index.bind(client);
index()

spalger on 6 Apr 2018

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i have the exact same issue

AlexandruSimandi on 17 Jan 2018

Same here

mdelorimier on 4 Apr 2018

var index = client.index;
index()

If it's the later then you need to bind the this context to the index function with something like the .bind() method:

var index = client.index.bind(client);
index()

spalger on 6 Apr 2018

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