# Ignore\_malformed not active despite true

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-malformed-not-active-despite-true/85979>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 16, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-malformed-not-active-despite-true/85979 "2017-05-16T16:04:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdanjou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@pdanjou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdanjou)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-malformed-not-active-despite-true/85979/1 "2017-05-16T16:04:35Z")

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Hi  
I got a mapping for CreateTime field: "CreateTime":{"type":"date","ignore\_malformed":true}  
but when I try to import some data with a broken CreateTime value I get

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_bulk --data-binary @/root/data2.json  
{"took":1,"errors":true,"items":[{"index":{"\_index":"test","\_type":"logs","\_id":"AVwR\_XIPsCkR6L8Aamj2","status":400,"error":{"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse [CreateTime]","caused\_by":{"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception","reason":"Invalid format: "2017-05-15 15:38:53+02:00" is malformed at " 15:38:53+02:00""}}}}]}

I am a beginner so I might be missing something obvious here.

Thanks for any help

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**Author:** ![pdanjou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@pdanjou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdanjou)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-malformed-not-active-despite-true/85979/2 "2017-05-17T08:24:08Z")

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from my mappings: "CreateTime":{"type":"date","ignore\_malformed":true}

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-malformed-not-active-despite-true/85979/3 "2017-06-14T08:24:08Z")

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