# Creating Indices with types using Java API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263 "2019-02-06T10:42:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Chandan\_Ray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandan_Ray)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/1 "2019-02-06T10:42:19Z")
Hi guys,
I am using RestHighLevelClient for Elasticsearch 5.6 but I am not able create indices using the API.
Help.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/2 "2019-02-06T11:06:18Z")
Probably this version of the client does not support this api so you need to use the low level one and manage that by yourself.
Something like:
```
try {
Response response = lowLevelClient.performRequest("PUT", "/" + index,
Collections.emptyMap(), createEntity(indexSettings));
logger.trace("create index response: {}", asMap(response));
} catch (ResponseException e) {
if (e.getResponse().getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 400 &&
(e.getMessage().contains("index_already_exists_exception") || // ES 5.x
e.getMessage().contains("IndexAlreadyExistsException") )) { // ES 1.x and 2.x
if (!ignoreErrors) {
throw new RuntimeException("index already exists");
}
logger.trace("index already exists. Ignoring error...");
return;
}
throw e;
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/3 "2019-02-06T11:07:10Z")
Or upgrade the server to 6.6 and the client as well. It has been implemented in 6.6
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### Author:  [@Chandan\_Ray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandan_Ray)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/4 "2019-02-06T12:20:47Z")
Thanks David. The information was very helpful.
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### Author:  [@Chandan\_Ray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandan_Ray)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/5 "2019-02-06T12:40:06Z")
> [@dadoonet](#):
>
> Collections.emptyMap()
Are we using this parameter to provide the "type" and "properties" mapping.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/6 "2019-02-06T13:26:26Z")
In case you need some other methods, here is a class I wrote which adds some support for few other methods which are not supported by the HLClient v5.
>
HTH
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-indices-with-types-using-java-api/167263/7 "2019-03-06T13:26:33Z")
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