Managing mappings

After creating an Index the next step is to add some mapping to it. We have already seen how to put a mapping via REST API in Chapter 4, Standard Operations. In this recipe, we will see how to manage mappings via native client.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working copy of Maven.

The code of this recipe is in chapter_10/nativeclient in the code bundle of this book, available on Packt's website, and the referred class is MappingsOperations.

How to do it...

In the following code, we add a mytype mapping to a myindex via native client:

importorg.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.mapping.put.PutMappingResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.client.Client;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory.jsonBuilder;

public class MappingOperations {

  public static void main( String[] args )
  {
    String index="mytest";
    String type...