Justin Rovang rovangju

Elasticsearch: updating the mappings and settings of an existing index

Note: This was written using elasticsearch 0.9.

Elasticsearch will automatically create an index (with basic settings and mappings) for you if you post a first document:

$ curl -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/thegame/weapons/1' -d \
'{
  "_id": 1,

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
	<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8"/>

	<xsl:template match="/*[node()]">
	<xsl:text>{</xsl:text>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="detect" />
	<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
	</xsl:template>