# WeaviateQueryError: Query call with protocol GRPC search failed with message panic occurred: ValidateParam was called without any known params present **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** wcs\ **Created:** [April 3, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896 "2024-04-03T15:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Debojit\_Nath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/debojit_nath/32/1232_2.png) [@Debojit\_Nath](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Debojit_Nath)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896/1 "2024-04-03T15:14:26Z")
using the text search method from [this](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/search/similarity#search-with-text) example and getting WeaviateQueryError. weaviate-client version is 4.5.4 and weaviate sandbox version is 1.24.6. Although querying the local instance on Docker seems to be working fine code: ```auto import weaviate import weaviate.classes as wvc # Set these environment variables URL = "some_url" APIKEY = "weaviate_api_key" # Connect to a WCS instance client = weaviate.connect_to_wcs(skip_init_checks=True, cluster_url=URL, auth_credentials=weaviate.auth.AuthApiKey(APIKEY), headers={ "X-Cohere-Api-Key": "cohere_api_Key" # Replace with your inference API key } ) jeopardy = client.collections.get("JeopardyQuestion") response = jeopardy.query.near_text( query="animals in movies", limit=2, return_metadata=wvc.query.MetadataQuery(distance=True) ) for o in response.objects: print(o.properties) print(o.metadata.distance) ``` Traceback: ```auto --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _InactiveRpcError Traceback (most recent call last) File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\weaviate\collections\grpc\query.py:609, in _QueryGRPC.__call(self, request) 608 res: search_get_pb2.SearchReply # According to PEP-0526 --> 609 res, _ = self._connection.grpc_stub.Search.with_call( 610 request, 611 metadata=self._connection.grpc_headers(), 612 timeout=self._connection.timeout_config.query, 613 ) 615 return res File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\grpc\_channel.py:1193, in _UnaryUnaryMultiCallable.with_call(self, request, timeout, metadata, credentials, wait_for_ready, compression) 1187 ( 1188 state, 1189 call, 1190 ) = self._blocking( 1191 request, timeout, metadata, credentials, wait_for_ready, compression 1192 ) -> 1193 return _end_unary_response_blocking(state, call, True, None) File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\grpc\_channel.py:1005, in _end_unary_response_blocking(state, call, with_call, deadline) 1004 else: -> 1005 raise _InactiveRpcError(state) _InactiveRpcError: <_InactiveRpcError of RPC that terminated with: status = StatusCode.UNKNOWN details = "panic occurred: ValidateParam was called without any known params present" debug_error_string = "UNKNOWN:Error received from peer {created_time:"2024-04-03T07:33:51.3929187+00:00", grpc_status:2, grpc_message:"panic occurred: ValidateParam was called without any known params present"}" > During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: WeaviateQueryError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[13], line 6 3 client = weaviate.connect_to_local() 5 jeopardy = client.collections.get("hopper_collection") ----> 6 response = jeopardy.query.near_text( 7 query="animals in movies", 8 limit=2, 9 return_metadata=wvc.query.MetadataQuery(distance=True) 10 ) 12 for o in response.objects: 13 print(o.properties) File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\weaviate\collections\queries\near_text\query.py:90, in _NearTextQuery.near_text(self, query, certainty, distance, move_to, move_away, limit, offset, auto_limit, filters, group_by, rerank, target_vector, include_vector, return_metadata, return_properties, return_references) 25 def near_text( 26 self, 27 query: Union[List[str], str], (...) 43 return_references: Optional[ReturnReferences[TReferences]] = None, 44 ) -> QueryNearMediaReturnType[Properties, References, TProperties, TReferences]: 45 """Search for objects in this collection by text using text-capable vectorization module and vector-based similarity search. 46 47 See the [docs](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/api/graphql/search-operators#neartext) for a more detailed explanation. (...) 88 If the request to the Weaviate server fails. 89 """ ---> 90 res = self._query.near_text( 91 near_text=query, 92 certainty=certainty, 93 distance=distance, 94 move_to=move_to, 95 move_away=move_away, 96 limit=limit, 97 offset=offset, 98 autocut=auto_limit, 99 filters=filters, 100 target_vector=target_vector, 101 group_by=_GroupBy.from_input(group_by), 102 rerank=rerank, 103 return_metadata=self._parse_return_metadata(return_metadata, include_vector), 104 return_properties=self._parse_return_properties(return_properties), 105 return_references=self._parse_return_references(return_references), 106 ) 107 return self._result_to_query_or_groupby_return( 108 res, 109 _QueryOptions.from_input( (...) 119 return_references, 120 ) File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\weaviate\collections\grpc\query.py:418, in _QueryGRPC.near_text(self, near_text, certainty, distance, move_to, move_away, limit, offset, autocut, filters, group_by, generative, rerank, target_vector, return_metadata, return_properties, return_references) 379 near_text_req = search_get_pb2.NearTextSearch( 380 query=near_text, 381 certainty=certainty, (...) 401 ), 402 ) 404 request = self.__create_request( 405 limit=limit, 406 offset=offset, (...) 415 near_text=near_text_req, 416 ) --> 418 return self.__call(request) File c:\Users\deboj\anaconda3\envs\rivi_rag\Lib\site-packages\weaviate\collections\grpc\query.py:618, in _QueryGRPC.__call(self, request) 615 return res 617 except grpc.RpcError as e: --> 618 raise WeaviateQueryError(e.details(), "GRPC search") WeaviateQueryError: Query call with protocol GRPC search failed with message panic occurred: ValidateParam was called without any known params present. ``` ---
**Author:** ![sebawita](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/sebawita/32/5_2.png) [@sebawita](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/sebawita)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896/2 "2024-04-04T10:45:02Z")
Hi @Debojit_Nath, Just to be sure, did you update the `URL`, APIKEY`and`"cohere\_api\_Key"` values? You don’t need to share them here 😉 > [@Debojit\_Nath](#): > > ```auto > # Set these environment variables > URL = "some_url" > APIKEY = "weaviate_api_key" > > ``` > [@Debojit\_Nath](#): > > ```auto > headers={ > "X-Cohere-Api-Key": "cohere_api_Key" # Replace with your inference API key > } > > ``` Can you check if you have any data in your collection? ```auto hopper = client.collections.get("hopper_collection") agg = hopper.aggregate.over_all() print(agg) ``` Can you check and if they have vectors? ```auto hopper = client.collections.get("hopper_collection") response = hopper.query.fetch_objects( include_vector=True, limit=1 ) print(response.objects[0].properties) print(response.objects[0].vector["default"]) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Debojit\_Nath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/debojit_nath/32/1232_2.png) [@Debojit\_Nath](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Debojit_Nath)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896/3 "2024-04-05T07:08:08Z")
during execution I had the proper api keys and urls, getting the following while checking for data ```auto AggregateReturn(properties={}, total_count=114) ``` and the following while checking for vectors ```auto {'answers': 'some answer', 'question': 'some question'} --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KeyError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[4], line 8 2 response = hopper.query.fetch_objects( 3 include_vector=True, 4 limit=1 5 ) 7 print(response.objects[0].properties) ----> 8 print(response.objects[0].vector["default"]) KeyError: 'default' ``` seems like while inserting data to collection the vectors were not created, I’ll try the creating a new collection and make sure the vectors are created ---
**Author:** ![Debojit\_Nath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/debojit_nath/32/1232_2.png) [@Debojit\_Nath](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Debojit_Nath)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896/4 "2024-04-05T07:09:21Z")
just figured out that I wasn’t using the vectorizer while creating the collection, now it’s working as expected, thanks for the help @sebawita 🤗 ---
**Author:** ![sebawita](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/sebawita/32/5_2.png) [@sebawita](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/sebawita)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviatequeryerror-query-call-with-protocol-grpc-search-failed-with-message-panic-occurred-validateparam-was-called-without-any-known-params-present/1896/5 "2024-04-08T10:59:18Z")
Hi @Debojit_Nath, I am glad you were able to find the issue. I think we should add the example to check for vectors to a troubleshooting guide. 🤔 Good luck with your project. I can’t wait to see what you will build. 🙂