I keep getting the following exception while creating index using API. This does not happen in all cases. {"message":"Elasticsearch exception: MapperParsingException[Failed to parse mapping [records]: name cannot be empty string]; nested: IllegalArgumentException[name cannot be empty string] Its a…

MapperParsingException[Failed to parse mapping...]

animageofmine (Ankit Parikh) June 20, 2017, 5:13am 4

That's quite useful. I guess the bottom line is that, we shouldn't use dots. In our case we are using ES version 5.3

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