Best way to store variable number of key:value fields

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Hi,
I want to index some Data, where each Document should have a variable
number of fields.
An example because I can't express myself very good this morning:

Apple
Color: Green
Flavor: Sour

Mobilephone
Color: black
Os: Android

My problem is, that "Apple" should not have the field Os and the
Mobilephone shouldnt have the field Flavor in turn.

Im new to Elasticsearch, so maybe there is an easy answer for that.

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Hi Dominic,

It's not very clear to me what your question is. You want to reject Apple
documents that have an OS field?

I guess you can either have Apples and Mobilephones in their own type. This
will make it clear which fields belong to which type of document. And
because ES has dynamic mappings enabled by default, you can always add new
types of documents, or new fields to a current type:

Best regards
Radu

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Dominic Gross dvgrossd@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,
I want to index some Data, where each Document should have a variable
number of fields.
An example because I can't express myself very good this morning:

Apple
Color: Green
Flavor: Sour

Mobilephone
Color: black
Os: Android

My problem is, that "Apple" should not have the field Os and the
Mobilephone shouldnt have the field Flavor in turn.

Im new to Elasticsearch, so maybe there is an easy answer for that.

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So I can just write the two Documents (Apple and Mobilephone) to the same
Index (and the same Type?).

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You can do that, too, yes.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Dominic Gross dvgrossd@gmail.com wrote:

So I can just write the two Documents (Apple and Mobilephone) to the same
Index (and the same Type?).

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Thats awesome, thank you for your help!

Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2014 09:10:10 UTC+2 schrieb Radu Gheorghe:

You can do that, too, yes.

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You're welcome :slight_smile:

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Dominic Gross dvgrossd@gmail.com wrote:

Thats awesome, thank you for your help!

Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2014 09:10:10 UTC+2 schrieb Radu Gheorghe:

You can do that, too, yes.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Dominic Gross dvgr...@gmail.comwrote:

So I can just write the two Documents (Apple and Mobilephone) to the
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