Hello, I know we had this in the past, but could please a feature be introduced to have a flag at numbers like integer, float, etc, so we can have ES make empty Strings a "null" value instead? Currently an empty String "" ceates a org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: Failed to…

NumberFormatException issues caused by an empty string

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