gistfile1.txt

$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/index1/type1/1' -d '{
    "type1" : {
        "user" : "kimchy",
        "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
        "message" : "trying out Elastic Search"
    }
}'


--------------------------Search with an invalid query-----------------------------------
$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index1/type1/_search?q=*:

--------------------------Search with a valid query-----------------------------------
$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index1/type1/_search?q=*:*

RESPONSE:
{

    "took": 31,
    "timed_out": false,
    "_shards": {
        "total": 5,
        "successful": 5,
        "failed": 0,
        "failures": [
            {
                "index": "index1",
                "shard": 4,
                "status": 400,
                "reason": "SearchParseException[[index1][4]: from[-1],size[-1]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [:)\n\u0005򄱵ery򋱵ery_string򀁪:—lowercase_expanded_terms#analyze_wildcard\"󻻀]]]; nested: QueryParsingException[[index1] Failed to parse query [*:]]; nested: ParseException[Cannot parse '*:': Encountered \"<EOF>\" at line 1, column 2.\r\nWas expecting one of:\r\n \"(\" ...\r\n \"*\" ...\r\n <QUOTED> ...\r\n <TERM> ...\r\n <PREFIXTERM> ...\r\n <WILDTERM> ...\r\n \"[\" ...\r\n \"{\" ...\r\n <NUMBER> ...\r\n ]; nested: ParseException[Encountered \"<EOF>\" at line 1, column 2.\r\nWas expecting one of:\r\n \"(\" ...\r\n \"*\" ...\r\n <QUOTED> ...\r\n <TERM> ...\r\n <PREFIXTERM> ...\r\n <WILDTERM> ...\r\n \"[\" ...\r\n \"{\" ...\r\n <NUMBER> ...\r\n ]; "
            }
        ]
    },
    "hits": {
        "total": 1,
        "max_score": 1,
        "hits": [
            {
                "_index": "index1",
                "_type": "type1",
                "_id": "uZJU4MzSRH2hBE_fqFZANA",
                "_score": 1,
                "_source": {
                    "type1": {
                        "user": "kimchy",
                        "post_date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
                        "message": "trying out Elastic Search"
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }

}