# Passing map to elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-map-to-elastic-search/6216>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 22, 2011, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-map-to-elastic-search/6216 "2011-12-22T08:11:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@ian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-map-to-elastic-search/6216/1 "2011-12-22T08:11:33Z")

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hello  
im new to es.I have a hashmap which contains values used for indexing.How could i use map to create index

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-map-to-elastic-search/6216/2 "2017-07-06T03:44:37Z")

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