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Nawa
Nawa

Reputation: 2158

Error when creating an index using mappings file

I installed Elasticsearch 1.5.2 on CentOS as a service. I tried to add mappings using PUT:

curl -XPUT $ES_HOST/my_index -d'
{
  "mappings": {
    "my_type": {
      "properties": {
        "field": {
          "type": "nested"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'

That request works fine and creates new index with correct mappings. Instead of putting mappings manually I want to store mappings on server in config files. For that I created file /etc/elasticsearch/mappings/my_index/all_mappings.json with the same content as previous request body. After that I'm trying to create index curl -XPUT $ES_HOST/my_index but the error occurs 

{
    "error": "MapperParsingException[mapping [all_mappings]]; nested: 
                MapperParsingException[Root type mapping not empty after parsing! 
                Remaining fields:   [mappings : {my_type={properties={field={type=nested}}}}]]; ",
    "status": 400
}

I tried to remove mappings field in config json but nothing changed.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

Andrei Stefan
Andrei Stefan

Reputation: 52368

The name of the file is the mapping name. So, for /mappings/my_index/all_mappings.json you should have the index my_index and the type called all_mappings.

Also, the content of the file should be:

   {
     "properties": {
        "field": {
          "type": "nested"
        }
      }
    }

These being said, do the following:

  • create a my_type.json file under /etc/elasticsearch/mappings/my_index folder
  • put inside that file the following:
   {
     "properties": {
        "field": {
          "type": "nested"
        }
      }
    }
  • call PUT /test_my_index
  • check the mapping: GET /test_my_index/_mapping

Upvotes: 1

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