Unable to put settings for Index template

[prasdmc (Pras)]

Hi,

I tried to apply Index template setting parameter { "ignore_malformed: true"} and it changes to {"ignore_malformed": "true" } , from boolean to string.

I used kibana console.

// PUT _template/myindex
{
"order" : 0,
"index_patterns" : [
"myindex-*"
],
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"mapping" : {
"ignore_malformed" : true
}
},
"mappings" : { },
"aliases" : { }
}
}

Please let me know how to fix this.

Thanks,
Pras

[Bernt_Rostad]

It worked for me in Kibana, when removing the two slashes in front of PUT:

PUT _template/myindex
{
  "order" : 0,
  "index_patterns" : [ "myindex-*" ],
  "settings" : {
    "index" : {
      "mapping" : { "ignore_malformed" : true }
    },
    "mappings" : { },
    "aliases" : { }
  }
}

I then fetched it with a GET _template/myindex call in Kibana and got:

{
  "myindex": {
    "order": 0,
    "index_patterns": [
      "myindex-*"
    ],
    "settings": {
      "index": {
        "mapping": {
          "ignore_malformed": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    "mappings": {},
    "aliases": {}
  }
}

[prasdmc (Pras)]

Hi Brent,

I also get this { "ignore_malformed": "true" }. Shouldn't boolean be just { true }, { "true" } is a string, right?

// is used for markup, didn't work.:)

Thanks,
Pras

[Bernt_Rostad]

I'm sorry, I thought the problem was that you couldn't install the mapping.

I agree, i think "true" should be true so there must be something wrong with that mapping. I'm not very familiar with the ignore_malformed parameter but the official documentation seems to indicate that you need to set is as a property on the document field which you want to ignore, if it is malformed.

For instance, this mapping test works for me:

PUT _template/myindex
{
  "order" : 0,
  "index_patterns" : [ "myindex-*" ],
  "mappings" : {
      "_doc" : {
        "properties" : {
          "field" : {
            "type" : "integer",
            "ignore_malformed" : true
          }
        }
      }
  }
}

GET _template/myindex
{
  "myindex": {
    "order": 0,
    "index_patterns": [
      "myindex-*"
    ],
    "settings": {},
    "mappings": {
      "_doc": {
        "properties": {
          "field": {
            "type": "integer",
            "ignore_malformed": true
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "aliases": {}
  }
}

Good luck!

[prasdmc (Pras)]

This is the problem, when you apply it to index setting it becomes {"true"} ,else for any other fields it is {true}.

Please try it on your index settings. Not sure if I am doing something wrong or it's a bug.

Thanks,
Pras

[Bernt_Rostad]

I already tried it in the index settings and got the same result you did, which is why I guess it must be used inside a document field's "properties" element, as I illustrated earlier, not directly under "settings". But I could be wrong about that guess.

[prasdmc (Pras)]

I followed the official documentation.

Index-level defaultedit

The index.mapping.ignore_malformed setting can be set on the index level to allow to ignore malformed content globally across all mapping types.