# Elastic 5.6 dynamic template mappings \_default\_
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988 "2017-09-19T08:30:02Z")
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### Author:  [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988/1 "2017-09-19T08:30:02Z")
Hi,
I'm little confused with the mapping deprecation, I read here:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.x/default-mapping.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.x/default-mapping.html)
I'm creating a new app using the last 5.6 elastic and I have dynamic template mapping defined like in logstash here:
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According to the documentation "_default_" is deprecated in 6.0 so If I use it in 5.6 I'll have deprecation warning when I'll upgrade!
I prefer to go the correct way now, so I have nothing to do later. But the problem is I don't find in the doc what to use to have the equivalent? What is the correct way to go?
Thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988/2 "2017-09-19T08:34:20Z")
Instead of using `_default_`, use the actual type that you are passing in.
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### Author:  [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988/3 "2017-09-19T08:43:11Z")
Thanks for the reply, now I get it but my case was not exactly this, sorry for the confusion.
"template": "\*", \<---- I have a top template that will apply to all my indices... 😓
Or does it mean that all my type will be named "unamed" \<--- or whatever generic name?
Ok I got it!!! anyway it make sense in a way that it will be removed so don't care about the name!
It took time but now I got it! 🙆♂️
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-5-6-dynamic-template-mappings--default-/100988/4 "2017-10-17T08:43:24Z")
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