Unable to disable dynamic mapping

ronsher · February 17, 2016, 10:18am

I'm using version 1.7.4

We've set index.mapper.dynamic: false in the elasticsearch.yml

I've noticed that new fields are automatically created (and added to the mapping) even though they are not part of the original mapping we provided.

I was under the impression that dynamic:false ignores fields that are not defined (as opposed to strict that also throws an exception).

Am I missing something?

charmon79 · February 17, 2016, 6:24pm

Try adding "dynamic":"false" to your mapping:

{
	"MyDocument":{
		"dynamic":"false",
		"properties":{
			...
		}
	}
}

ronsher · February 18, 2016, 5:54am

Isn't putting index.mapper.dynamic: false in the elasticsearch.yml file a valid configuration?
Does elasticsearch ignore that?

anhlqn · February 18, 2016, 7:35am

I think your index mapping may overwrite the settings in elasticsearch.yml.

ronsher · February 18, 2016, 7:42am

But I wanted the default to block dynamic mappings

anhlqn · February 18, 2016, 7:56am

Can you post your current mapping templates?

charmon79 · February 19, 2016, 1:47pm

Sounds like this was a known bug & possibly fixed in December, though I'm not sure how to tell in which version (I'm still rather new to git).

jasontedor · February 24, 2016, 11:07pm

It will be fixed in version 2.3.0 of Elasticsearch.