Thanks so much, Alexei!  

On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 2:12:33 PM UTC-4, Alexei Peters wrote:
>
> Hi Neil,
> This might be an issue with how Elasticsearch dynamically maps incoming 
> data to data types.  The very first time that a new value of a certain type 
> is saved, Elasticsearch will assign a datatype to it.  In the case of an 
> EDTF datatype, if the first time a user saved a value to that field and 
> that value might be construed as an integer, then ES will map it that way 
> and all future values would have to conform to that mapping.  Most of the 
> time this doesn't seem to be an issue, but EDTF values should be mapped to 
> type "text" but could easily get mapped to an "integer" or "date" type.
> See: 
> https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/dynamic-field-mapping.html#dynamic-field-mapping
>
> A temporary work around (if you can do it), would be to start from a clean 
> install, and then make sure that the first value that you save can't be 
> cast to anything other than a text value (eg: 1945?), something like "1945" 
> wouldn't work, as it would be mapped to a "long" field.
>
> Another alternative would be to create a new temporary index with the 
> proper mappings and then using ES, reindex your data into that new index.  
> Then delete your old index and recreate with the same "new" mapping (but 
> with the original name) and then reindex again back into that index.
>
> see this doc for the reindex api: 
> https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/docs-reindex.html
>
> Hopefully that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexei
>
> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173
>
> <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/dynamic-field-mapping.html#dynamic-field-mapping>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:42 AM Neil Silberman <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all-- We've come across a strange error during a training session with 
>> the use of EDTF dates. We believe everything is set up correctly: the graph 
>> model is using edtf (instead of date) as the node type and the card is 
>> using the edtf-widget. However, when someone puts in, e.g. 1945?  They get 
>> a 400 error (can’t parse ‘?’). We checked the google group and github and 
>> nothing seemed to suggest that other people were having this problem – is 
>> it an error with the build of arches we are using (4.4.1) on the server? 
>> Did we miss something? Thanks in advance for any feedback on this.
>>
>> Here's the error message:
>>
>>
>> Unable to save. A RequestError has occurred. Arguments: (400, 
>> u'mapper_parsing_exception', {u'status': 400, u'error': {u'caused_by': 
>> {u'reason': u"Can't get text on a START_OBJECT at 1:2105", u'type': 
>> u'illegal_state_exception'}, u'root_cause': [{u'reason': u'failed to parse 
>> [tiles.data.b955b3a0-e749-11e6-84a6-026d961c88e6]', u'type': 
>> u'mapper_parsing_exception'}], u'type': u'mapper_parsing_exception', 
>> u'reason': u'failed to parse 
>> [tiles.data.b955b3a0-e749-11e6-84a6-026d961c88e6]'}})
>>
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