The following api request sometimes returns that date is a string, other times it's a long. It looks to be about 50/50 but random whether it returns string or long. I expected it would always return the same. What am I missing? We are on Elasticsearch 1.1.2 if that matters. Thanks, Stephen $ fo…

Inconsistent field mapping -- sometimes string, sometimes long

colings86 (Colin Goodheart-Smithe) January 14, 2016, 9:30am 3

I think you might be hitting the issue described in this post . This is a bug that was fixed in 2.0 so you will need to upgrade to avoid hitting it again or explicitly map the fields in your index and not rely on the dynamic mapping

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Inconsistent field mapping -- sometimes string, sometimes long

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