### Author:  [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/1 "2013-02-07T22:17:30Z")
i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow not
working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
does anyone have a working example?
e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
{ "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
"mapper.dynamic" : false
}
i looked at this link -
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
thanks
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### Author:  [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/2 "2013-02-08T07:09:35Z")
Hello,
Here's a gist that you can adapt for a specific index:
>
If you need to do this globally, you can add this line to your
elasticsearch.yml:
index.mapper.dynamic: false
Restart Elasticsearch, and it should work for all new indices.
Alternatively, you should be able to do it with a template that matches all
indices, or the index names your interested in.
## Best regards, Radu
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, T Vinod Gupta [tvinod@readypulse.com](mailto:tvinod@readypulse.com)wrote:
> i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow not
> working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
>
> does anyone have a working example?
>
> e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> "mapper.dynamic" : false
> }
>
> i looked at this link -
> [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
>
> it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
>
> thanks
>
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Kleen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Kleen)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/3 "2013-02-08T10:15:14Z")
Hello,
if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on the root level of your object
as you asked for and not on the complete index as Radu mentioned you can do
it in the following way:
[https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e](https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e)
This will not prevent that an object gets created with unmapped fields, but
it wont create a dynamic field in the index as shown above in the example.
Regards,
Michael
On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC+1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
> i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow not
> working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
>
> does anyone have a working example?
>
> e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> "mapper.dynamic" : false
> }
>
> i looked at this link -
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
>
> it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
>
> thanks
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### Author:  [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/4 "2013-02-08T23:15:48Z")
thanks a lot!
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Michael Kleen
[michael.kleen@numberfour.eu](mailto:michael.kleen@numberfour.eu)wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on the root level of your
> object as you asked for and not on the complete index as Radu mentioned
> you can do it in the following way:
>
> [https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e](https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e)
>
> This will not prevent that an object gets created with unmapped fields,
> but it wont create a dynamic field in the index as shown above in the
> example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC+1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
>
> > i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow
> > not working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> > confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
> >
> > does anyone have a working example?
> >
> > e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> > { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> > "mapper.dynamic" : false
> > }
> >
> > i looked at this link - [http://www.elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch).\*\*
> > org/guide/reference/mapping/\*\*object-type.html[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
> >
> > it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
> >
> > thanks
>
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### Author:  [@Christopher\_J\_Bottar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christopher_J_Bottar)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/5 "2013-02-20T17:25:47Z")
How about if I want an error raised if I try to index a field that's not
defined as a part of the mapping?
Thanks.
On Friday, February 8, 2013 4:15:14 AM UTC-6, Michael Kleen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on the root level of your
> object as you asked for and not on the complete index as Radu mentioned
> you can do it in the following way:
>
> [https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e](https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e)
>
> This will not prevent that an object gets created with unmapped fields,
> but it wont create a dynamic field in the index as shown above in the
> example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC+1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
>
> > i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow
> > not working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> > confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
> >
> > does anyone have a working example?
> >
> > e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> > { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> > "mapper.dynamic" : false
> > }
> >
> > i looked at this link -
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
> >
> > it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
> >
> > thanks
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### Author:  [@hazzadous](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hazzadous)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2013, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/6 "2013-02-21T10:10:58Z")
In this case, you can specify dynamic: "strict". Any attempt to index an
unmapped field will cause the op to fail.
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:25:47 UTC, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> How about if I want an error raised if I try to index a field that's not
> defined as a part of the mapping?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Friday, February 8, 2013 4:15:14 AM UTC-6, Michael Kleen wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on the root level of your
> > object as you asked for and not on the complete index as Radu mentioned
> > you can do it in the following way:
> >
> > [https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e](https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e)
> >
> > This will not prevent that an object gets created with unmapped fields,
> > but it wont create a dynamic field in the index as shown above in the
> > example.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC+1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
> >
> > > i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow
> > > not working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> > > confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
> > >
> > > does anyone have a working example?
> > >
> > > e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> > > { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> > > "mapper.dynamic" : false
> > > }
> > >
> > > i looked at this link -
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
> > >
> > > it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
> > >
> > > thanks
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### Author:  [@Christopher\_J\_Bottar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christopher_J_Bottar)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/7 "2013-02-22T15:53:13Z")
In the yaml config file? Or is it a part of an index's mapping? Can you
give an example of how to use that setting?
Thanks for the info.
On Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:10:58 AM UTC-6, hazzadous wrote:
> In this case, you can specify dynamic: "strict". Any attempt to index an
> unmapped field will cause the op to fail.
>
> On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:25:47 UTC, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>
> > How about if I want an error raised if I try to index a field that's not
> > defined as a part of the mapping?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Friday, February 8, 2013 4:15:14 AM UTC-6, Michael Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on the root level of your
> > > object as you asked for and not on the complete index as Radu mentioned
> > > you can do it in the following way:
> > >
> > > [https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e](https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e)
> > >
> > > This will not prevent that an object gets created with unmapped fields,
> > > but it wont create a dynamic field in the index as shown above in the
> > > example.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC+1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
> > >
> > > > i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow
> > > > not working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> > > > confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
> > > >
> > > > does anyone have a working example?
> > > >
> > > > e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> > > > { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> > > > "mapper.dynamic" : false
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > i looked at this link -
> > > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
> > > >
> > > > it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/8 "2013-02-22T16:38:19Z")
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 07:53 -0800, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> In the yaml config file? Or is it a part of an index's mapping? Can
> you give an example of how to use that setting?
You can use it when you specify the mapping, eg at index creation time:
curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '
{
"mappings" : {
"mytype" : {
"dynamic" : "strict",
"properties" : {
"foo" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
}
}
}
'
You can also set it for all types in an index by specifying the default
mapping:
curl -XPUT '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1](http://127.0.0.1:9200/test/?pretty=1)' -d '
{
"mappings" : {
"_default_" : {
"dynamic" : "strict"
}
}
}
'
clint
> Thanks for the info.
>
> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:10:58 AM UTC-6, hazzadous wrote:
> In this case, you can specify dynamic: "strict". Any attempt
> to index an unmapped field will cause the op to fail.
>
> ```
> On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:25:47 UTC, Christopher J.
> Bottaro wrote:
> How about if I want an error raised if I try to index
> a field that's not defined as a part of the mapping?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Friday, February 8, 2013 4:15:14 AM UTC-6, Michael
> Kleen wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> if you want to disable the dynamic mapping on
> the root level of your object as you asked for
> and not on the complete index
> as Radu mentioned you can do it in the
> following way:
>
>
> https://gist.github.com/mkleen/4942355b8af22daa4a4e
>
>
>
> This will not prevent that an object gets
> created with unmapped fields, but it wont
> create a dynamic field in the index as shown
> above in the example.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Michael
>
> On Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:17:30 PM UTC
> +1, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
> i wanted to disable dynamic mapping
> for my indices.. but it is somehow not
> working for me.. i looked at the
> documentation and im still getting
> confused.. tried couple of things and
> it didnt work.
>
>
> does anyone have a working example?
>
>
> e.g., i tried the below and that didnt
> work -
> { "number_of_shards" : 2,
> "mapper.dynamic" : false
> }
>
>
> i looked at this link
> - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html
>
>
> it doesnt really tell how to disable
> at root level.
>
>
> thanks
>
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### Author:  [@Teddy777](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Teddy777)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/9 "2013-02-22T17:36:31Z")
If I want to specify my own mapping for some fields yet would like the
dynamic mapper to pick up on fields that I haven't specified, is this
possible?
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:17:30 UTC, T Vinod Gupta wrote:
> i wanted to disable dynamic mapping for my indices.. but it is somehow not
> working for me.. i looked at the documentation and im still getting
> confused.. tried couple of things and it didnt work.
>
> does anyone have a working example?
>
> e.g., i tried the below and that didnt work -
> { "number\_of\_shards" : 2,
> "mapper.dynamic" : false
> }
>
> i looked at this link -
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/object-type.html)
>
> it doesnt really tell how to disable at root level.
>
> thanks
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/10 "2013-02-22T17:49:19Z")
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 09:36 -0800, Teddy777 wrote:
> If I want to specify my own mapping for some fields yet would like the
> dynamic mapper to pick up on fields that I haven't specified, is this
> possible?
Yes, just put the mapping with the fields you want to specify, and leave
it as the default of dynamic: true. Then any new fields will by
dynamically detected and added
clint
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-dynamic-mapping/10659/11 "2017-07-06T02:50:01Z")