Getting a mapping
After having set our mappings for processing types, we sometimes need to control or analyze the mapping to prevent issues. The action to get the mapping for a type helps us to understand the record structure, or its evolution due to merging and implicit type guessing.
Getting ready
You will need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the mapping created in the previous recipe.
How to do it...
The HTTP method to get a mapping is GET.
The URL formats for getting a mapping are:
http://<server>/_mapping http://<server>/<index_name>/_mapping http://<server>/<index_name>/<type_name>/_mapping
To get a mapping from the type of an index, we will perform the following steps:
- If we consider the type order of the previous chapter, the call will be: ...
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