Get attribute type

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Hi, in the docs I see that I can change the type of a field with the
followng:

$ curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/user/_mapping -d '{
"properties" : {
"name" : { "type" : "string" }
}
}'

but how to get the current type of a field "name"?

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Hi Ridvan

Hi, in the docs I see that I can change the type of a field with the
followng:

Beware - you can't change the existing type. You can add new types.

but how to get the current type of a field "name"?

You can get the current mapping using GET mapping:

clint