stephenb
May 26, 2023, 7:11pm
3
Here is a little further explanation of what is happening
Try this test, hopefully this makes it clearer
POST test/_doc
{
"myfield" : "myvalue",
"myotherfield" :
{
"mysubfield1" : "mysubvalue1",
"mysubfield2" : "mysubvalue2"
}
}
Then Post
POST test/_doc
{
"myfield" : "myvalue",
"myotherfield" : "myconcretevalue"
}
and you will get this error.
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason" : "object mapping for [myotherfield] tried to parse field [myotherfield] as objec…
And Here is a sample code how you might fix something like this with an ingest pipeline.
Just in case you are interest here is a sample ingest pipeline / simulate with various combinations
## Ingest Pipeline Concrete / Object
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
"pipeline": {
"processors": [
{
"rename": {
"if": "ctx?.notes instanceof String",
"field": "notes",
"target_field": "notes.value",
"ignore_failure": false
}
}
]
},
"docs": [
{
"_source": {
"id": "8f22efb2-6a2a-4cb7-9d0b-01ca0d6…