I'm currently ingesting documents that for the most part are very structured. However, there are two fields in the document that contain JSON documents. With dynamic mapping, ES is treating each key of the JSON document as a field. As each JSON document has different keys, this is leading to a ma…

Coerce object to String

mhughes (Matt Hughes) July 29, 2016, 4:49pm 3

Would there be interest in a PR? I would think others have this same problem. Perusing XContentParser, it doesn't look that complicated.

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