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Published Jul. 2, 2025

unsupported symbol error after migration with geolocation as field name

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Rodrigo Mier

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Issue

  • The word "geolocation" is not a reserved word in Liferay Portal 6.2 but in DXP it is.
  • If a field name at Liferay Portal 6.2 is "geolocation", after the upgrade to DPX it could generated an Elasticsearch error like this:

  • ERROR [liferay/search_writer/SYSTEM_ENGINE-76][BulkDocumentRequestExecutorImpl:53] failure in bulk execution:_[1]: index [liferay-842907], type [LiferayDocumentType], id [com.liferay.journal.model.JournORTLET_7863163], message [MapperParsingException[failed to parse field [ddm__keyword__879923__geolocation] of type [geo_point]
  • An structure with this field will not work

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2

Resolution

  • This behaviour is cause because this field has de label "localizable":false
  • To avoid this error just need to define the label localizable as true:
    "localizable":true

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