Putting a mapping in an index

In the previous chapter, we saw how to build mappings by indexing documents. This recipe shows how to put a type mapping in an index. This kind of operation can be considered as the Elasticsearch version of an SQL-created table.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute these commands, HTTP clients can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or others. I suggest using the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.

To execute the following commands&...