# Cant add \_size to mapping in elasticsearch 5.5
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-add--size-to-mapping-in-elasticsearch-5-5/97605
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 18, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-add--size-to-mapping-in-elasticsearch-5-5/97605 "2017-08-18T15:34:21Z")
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### Author:  [@aliyesami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aliyesami)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-add--size-to-mapping-in-elasticsearch-5-5/97605/1 "2017-08-18T15:34:22Z")
> [root@hadoop1 ~]# curl -XPUT 'hadoop5:9200/lanetxn/txn\_details/\_mapping?pretty' -d '
>
> > {
> > "mappings": {
> > "txn\_dtails": {
> > "\_size": {
> > "enabled": true
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > '
> > {
> > "error" : {
> > "root\_cause" : [
> > {
> > "type" : "mapper\_parsing\_exception",
> > "reason" : "Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [mappings : {txn\_dtails={\_size={enabled=true}}}]"
> > }
> > ],
> > "type" : "mapper\_parsing\_exception",
> > "reason" : "Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [mappings : {txn\_dtails={\_size={enabled=true}}}]"
> > },
> > "status" : 400
> > }
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-add--size-to-mapping-in-elasticsearch-5-5/97605/2 "2017-08-18T16:08:54Z")
That functionality was moved to a plugin in 2.x: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-size.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-size.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-add--size-to-mapping-in-elasticsearch-5-5/97605/3 "2017-09-15T16:09:07Z")
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