Mapping shows exception for leap year date

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

I think I be also answered this here.

"MM-dd" mapping is not working, throwing exception in leap year day (feb 29, 2024))

Hi Team, We have the below mapping for saving the date of birth and date of joining with the below format ("MM-dd"), but the system is taking the year 1970 (not a leap year) and throwing the exception Mapping : "dob": { "type": "date", "format": "MM-dd" }, "doj": { "type": "date", "format": "MM-dd" }, Exception: [56]:ElasticSerachDAO:indexDocument:exception: org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: failed to parse field [doj] of type [date] in document with id '2240280…

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@ahmed_charafouddine Provided one approach.

You could create an ingest pipeline with code to set the current year.

What version are you using?