February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
12h 24m
English
After creating an index the next step is to add some mappings to it. We have already seen how to put a mapping via the REST API in Chapter 4, Basic Operations. In this recipe, we will see how to manage mappings via a native client.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
A Maven tool, or an IDE that natively supports it for Java programming such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, must be installed.
The code for this recipe is in the chapter_14/nativeclient directory and the referred class is MappingOperations.
In the following code, we add a mytype mapping to a myindex index via the native ...
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