illegal bulk import with ElasticSearch - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to bulk import JSON file into my ES index using cURL.
I run
curl -u username -k -H 'Content-Type: application/x-ndjson' -XPOST 'https://elasticsearch.website.me/search_data/company_services/_bulk?pretty' --data-binary #services.json
and it returns
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason" : "Malformed action/metadata line [1], expected START_OBJECT or END_OBJECT but found [START_ARRAY]"
}
],
"type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason" : "Malformed action/metadata line [1], expected START_OBJECT or END_OBJECT but found [START_ARRAY]"
},
"status" : 400
}
The structure of my json is
{ "services": [
{ "id":1},
{"id":2},
...]
}
Not sure why this error is being thrown.

Answer 1

Have a closer read of the Bulk API documentation for what the contents of your data file should be. It's worth noting that in your data file each line should be a JSON object. The file shouldn't be a typical .json file structure, which is what you have at present.
Your file might look something like the following:
{"index": {"_id":"1"}}
{"field1":"foo1", "field2":"bar1",...}
{"index": {"_id": "2"}}
{"field1":"foo2", "field2":"bar2",...}