# Mapping parse error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-parse-error/129375
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 24, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-parse-error/129375 "2018-04-24T21:00:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ramzey1981](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramzey1981)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-parse-error/129375/1 "2018-04-24T21:00:05Z")
I am receiving the following erorr in ES and i dont know what type object really means in this case. our field has been coming in as a string since the beginning,
like this, "time":"1524355464692"
here is the error,
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: object mapping for [time] tried to parse field [time] as object, but found a concrete value
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-parse-error/129375/2 "2018-04-25T02:48:48Z")
Probably because you sent previously something like
```
time : { ... }
```
Have a look at your current mapping and you'll see that time is an object and probably has sub fields.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-parse-error/129375/3 "2018-05-23T02:48:50Z")
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