Update field type in existing mapping in elastic search

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Hi ,

can you please provide inputs to update the existing field type in the
mapping.Below is the requirement.

I have crated contractIndex and it is type is conract. In that i have
fields contractid as long, contract number as long but i want to change
contract number type as string.

Thanks,
Srikanth.

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You can't.

You basically need to reindex.

That said, you can try to use a multifield which add a String representation of the same field. But old values (old docs) won't have this new field populated.

HTH

David :wink:
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs

Le 21 juin 2014 à 06:00, srikanth ramineni ri.srikanth@gmail.com a écrit :

Hi ,

can you please provide inputs to update the existing field type in the mapping.Below is the requirement.

I have crated contractIndex and it is type is conract. In that i have fields contractid as long, contract number as long but i want to change contract number type as string.

Thanks,
Srikanth.

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