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coerce
editcoerce
editData is not always clean. Depending on how it is produced a number might be
rendered in the JSON body as a true JSON number, e.g. 5
, but it might also
be rendered as a string, e.g. "5"
. Alternatively, a number that should be
an integer might instead be rendered as a floating point, e.g. 5.0
, or even
"5.0"
.
Coercion attempts to clean up dirty values to fit the data type of a field. For instance:
- Strings will be coerced to numbers.
- Floating points will be truncated for integer values.
For instance:
PUT my-index-000001 { "mappings": { "properties": { "number_one": { "type": "integer" }, "number_two": { "type": "integer", "coerce": false } } } } PUT my-index-000001/_doc/1 { "number_one": "10" } PUT my-index-000001/_doc/2 { "number_two": "10" }
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The coerce
setting value can be updated on existing fields
using the PUT mapping API.
Index-level default
editThe index.mapping.coerce
setting can be set on the index level to disable
coercion globally across all mapping types: