My document looks like { "start_time" : "2016-Sep-04 18:06:24.352", "end_time" : "2016-Sep-04 18:06:28.352" } When I inserted this document into the ES I want it to become as { "start_time" : "2016-Sep-04 18:06:24.352", "end_time" : "2016-Sep-04 18:06:28.352", "difference": 2000 } The difference…

For now the only way to do it is on client side. In the next version of elasticsearch (5.0) we are adding capabilities in order to enrich the source, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/ingest.html

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Ravi_Shanker_Reddy (Ravi Shanker Reddy) September 20, 2016, 8:57am 2

Is there anyway for this?????

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