# Empty date is not getting detected!
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/empty-date-is-not-getting-detected/200003
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/empty-date-is-not-getting-detected/200003 "2019-09-18T12:35:39Z")
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### Author:  [@adarshzphin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adarshzphin)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/empty-date-is-not-getting-detected/200003/1 "2019-09-18T12:35:39Z")
I have below dynamic mapping for index "my\_index"
PUT my\_index
{
"mappings": {
"dynamic\_templates": [
{
"objects": {
"match\_mapping\_type": "object",
"mapping": {
"type": "nested"
}
}
}
],
"dynamic\_date\_formats": "yyyy-MM-dd||yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
}
}
Now, when I am inserting data into es. It is giving me below error like:
org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.EsHadoopRemoteException: mapper\_parsing\_exception: failed to parse field [raw\_derived.applications.accounts.dateclosed] of type [date] in document with id '02cf10ae-93c4-45a3-99bb-a0d01f24fa86'. Preview of field's value: '';org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.EsHadoopRemoteException: illegal\_argument\_exception: cannot parse empty date
there is field called "dateclosed". It is having value or sometimes empty values.
How can I set dynamically in the mapping to ignore empty value from date fields?
Any suggestion would be helpful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/empty-date-is-not-getting-detected/200003/2 "2019-10-16T12:35:49Z")
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