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Put Mapping

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Put Mapping

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The PUT mapping API allows you to add fields to an existing index or to change search only settings of existing fields.

PUT twitter 
{}

PUT twitter/_mapping/_doc 
{
  "properties": {
    "email": {
      "type": "keyword"
    }
  }
}

	Creates an index called `twitter` without any type mapping.
	Uses the PUT mapping API to add a new field called `email` to the `_doc` mapping type.

More information on how to define type mappings can be found in the mapping section.

Multi-index

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The PUT mapping API can be applied to multiple indices with a single request. For example, we can update the twitter-1 and twitter-2 mappings at the same time:

# Create the two indices
PUT twitter-1
PUT twitter-2

# Update both mappings
PUT /twitter-1,twitter-2/_mapping/_doc 
{
  "properties": {
    "user_name": {
      "type": "text"
    }
  }
}

Note that the indices specified (twitter-1,twitter-2) follows multiple index names and wildcard format.

When updating the _default_ mapping with the PUT mapping API, the new mapping is not merged with the existing mapping. Instead, the new _default_ mapping replaces the existing one.

Updating field mappings

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In general, the mapping for existing fields cannot be updated. There are some exceptions to this rule. For instance:

new properties can be added to Object datatype fields.
new multi-fields can be added to existing fields.
the ignore_above parameter can be updated.

For example:

PUT my_index 
{
  "mappings": {
    "_doc": {
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "properties": {
            "first": {
              "type": "text"
            }
          }
        },
        "user_id": {
          "type": "keyword"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT my_index/_mapping/_doc
{
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "properties": {
        "last": { 
          "type": "text"
        }
      }
    },
    "user_id": {
      "type": "keyword",
      "ignore_above": 100 
    }
  }
}

	Create an index with a `first` field under the `name` Object datatype field, and a `user_id` field.
	Add a `last` field under the `name` object field.
	Update the `ignore_above` setting from its default of 0.

Each mapping parameter specifies whether or not its setting can be updated on an existing field.

Skipping types

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Types are being removed from Elasticsearch: in 7.0, the mappings element will no longer take the type name as a top-level key by default. You can already opt in for this behavior by setting include_type_name=false and putting mappings directly under mappings in the index creation call, without specifying a type name.

On indices created on Elasticsearch 5.x, such calls will actually introduce or update mappings for the _doc type. It is recommended to avoid calling the put-mapping API with include_type_name=false on 5.x indices.

Here is an example:

PUT my_index?include_type_name=false
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "name": {
        "properties": {
          "first": {
            "type": "text"
          }
        }
      },
      "user_id": {
        "type": "keyword"
      }
    }
  }
}

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