Suddenly, elastic transport cannot handle unicode characters.

[superfan-dobri]

💥 Regression Report

I'm not convinced this is an issue with elastic transport yet, but I'm hoping I can get some pointers to figure out what's going on. Did anything change with how elastic transport handles unicode characters? At around 9am central time yesterday, 8/23, multiple elastic clusters across several environments suddently started throwing the following error across all elastic endpoints:

/usr/src/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@elastic+transport@8.7.0/node_modules/@elastic/transport/lib/Transport.js:604
                            : new errors_1.ConnectionError(error.message, result, errorOptions);
                              ^

ConnectionError: Request body length does not match content-length header
    at SniffingTransport._request (/usr/src/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@elastic+transport@8.7.0/node_modules/@elastic/transport/lib/Transport.js:604:31)
    at async SniffingTransport.request (/usr/src/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@elastic+transport@8.7.0/node_modules/@elastic/transport/lib/Transport.js:651:20)
    at async Client.IndexApi [as index] (/usr/src/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@elastic+elasticsearch@8.14.0/node_modules/@elastic/elasticsearch/lib/api/api/index.js:51:12)
    at async reindexModelItem (/usr/src/app/experimental/framework/elastic_util.js:174:5)
    at async updateModelInternal (/usr/src/app/experimental/framework/database.js:67:13) {
  options: { redaction: { type: 'replace', additionalKeys: [] } },
  meta: {
    body: undefined,
    statusCode: 0,
    headers: {},
    meta: {
      context: null,
      request: {
        params: {
          method: 'PUT',
          path: '/game/_doc/22585',
          body: '{ ... valid JSON ... }',
          querystring: '',
          headers: {
            'user-agent': 'elasticsearch-js/8.14.0 (linux 6.1.85+-x64; Node.js 22.7.0; Transport 8.7.0)',
            'x-elastic-client-meta': 'es=8.14.0,js=22.7.0,t=8.7.0,hc=22.7.0',
            authorization: '[redacted]',
            'content-type': 'application/vnd.elasticsearch+json; compatible-with=8',
            accept: 'application/vnd.elasticsearch+json; compatible-with=8',
            'content-length': '1256'
          }
        },
        options: {},
        id: 2770
      },
      name: 'elasticsearch-js',
      connection: {
        url: 'https://index-es-http:9200/',
        tls: {
          ca: { ... },
          rejectUnauthorized: true
        },
        id: 'https://index-es-http:9200/',
        timeout: 30000,
        headers: {
          'user-agent': 'elasticsearch-js/8.14.0 (linux 6.1.85+-x64; Node.js 22.7.0; Transport 8.7.0)',
          'x-elastic-client-meta': 'es=8.14.0,js=22.7.0,t=8.7.0,hc=22.7.0',
          authorization: '[redacted]'
        },
        deadCount: 0,
        resurrectTimeout: 0,
        _openRequests: 0,
        weight: 1000,
        maxEventListeners: 100,
        pool: { _events: {}, _eventsCount: 0, _maxListeners: undefined }
      },
      attempts: 3,
      aborted: false
    },
    warnings: null
  }
}

Node.js v22.7.0

Last working version

Worked up to version: 8.7.0

Stopped working in version: 8.7.0

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior: No idea

In the current configuration, this is guaranteed to fail:

await client.index({
  index: "test",
  id: "1",
  document:{ name: "José" },
});

Note other endpoints, such as search, exhibit the same behavior. If a unicode character is present, the request fails with the above error.

Such index calls worked just fine prior to 9am yesterday. This is a self-hosted Elastic cluster running on kube in GKE. As far as I can tell, there have been no changes to the cluster, although the individual elastic nodes have restarted.

Expected behavior

The index is updated and no errors are thrown.

Your Environment

• node version: v22.7.0
• @elastic/elasticsearch version: >=8.14.0
• os: Linux

[superfan-dobri]

Well this was fun, and short lived. But yeah, most likely got head-shotted by node@latest dep. There are several buffer / byteLength calculation issues in 22.7.0: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/54543#issuecomment-2308461496

[JoshMock]

@superfan-dobri Since this appears to be a Node issue, and the only recent release of the transport doesn't seem like it would have caused this issue, I'm going to close.