Analyze API returns in YAML format if analyzed string begins with ---

[lennartkoopmann]

$ curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_analyze?analyzer=standard' -d 'this is a test'
{"tokens":[{"token":"test","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14,"type":"<ALPHANUM>","position":4}]}

$ curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_analyze?analyzer=standard' -d '---this is a test'

---
tokens:
- token: "test"
  start_offset: 13
  end_offset: 17
  type: "<ALPHANUM>"
  position: 4

Version:

$ curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/'
{
  "ok" : true,
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "Multiple Man",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "0.20.4",
    "snapshot_build" : false
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

[s1monw]

what is the rational behind this? I think you should be free to pass anything to this api. I can see people passing lucene query syntax to it and expect json like "-foo:bar +bar:foo"

[kimchy]

we autodetect the content type to return based on the format of the request body, --- is a representation of yaml, so we send it back in yaml. We should disable this behavior for the analyze APi, will fix it shortly.

[lennartkoopmann]

Thanks!