Hey Peter,

Did you find a resolution for Hashmap mappings? Looking for the same thing.

Thanks,
Sangita.


On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:03:35 AM UTC-5, Peter Webber wrote:
>
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> thanks for your reply first of all. The problem is that I will have 
> millions of keys, and that ES creates a mapping for each. That will bloat 
> the mappings data structure and probably lead to some memory and/or 
> performance issues somewhere (I don't know enough about ES internals, to 
> know precisely where, but it cannot be good to have a few million entries 
> in the mapping where one would do.)
>
> Hope that helps!
> Peter   
>
>
>
> Am Dienstag, 14. Januar 2014 13:01:22 UTC+1 schrieb Alexander Reelsen:
>>
>> Hey Peter,
>>
>> can you tell me, where your problem with the above approach actually is? 
>> You feed a number of key/value pairs into elasticsearch, each key and each 
>> value is evaluated by its type and then put into the mapping, as each key 
>> becomes an own field in elasticsearch, which can be searched for. Wondering 
>> why this is a problem for you? Or why do you want to avoid that?
>>
>> Also, where and how do you want to change the mapping to? 
>>
>> I am a bit confused what and why you are expecting to be different than 
>> it actually is. Maybe you should not think in java data structures but 
>> rather in JSON, which is being indexed and needs to create a mapping in 
>> order to be able to search for it. Happy to help, if I understand what you 
>> are trying to do. Please elaborate.
>>
>>
>> --Alex
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Oliver B. Fischer <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> ES allows you to defined dynamic mappings there you can determine the 
>>> mapping of a property based on the evaluation of some conditions.
>>>
>>> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/
>>> reference/current/mapping-dynamic-mapping.html
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> Am 12.01.14 17:16, schrieb Peter Webber:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> I had a look at the mapping ES created automatically for one of my
>>>> indices, and found something that's not quite right:
>>>>
>>>> ....
>>>> |||      "annotations"| |: { |
>>>> |||"properties"| |: { |
>>>> |||"ids"| |: { |
>>>> |||"properties"| |: { |
>>>> |||"hashMap"| |: { |
>>>> |||"properties"| |: { |
>>>> |||"N_10290607"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"A_1038408"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"A_11585994"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"B_1245677"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"B_1269810"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"C_15680034"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||}, |
>>>> |||"N_1654171"| |: { |
>>>> |||"type"| |: ||"double"|
>>>> |||},
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I use Gson to convert Java classes to Json and then directly put them
>>>> into ES. One of the classes I use has a HashMap<String, Double> as a
>>>> central piece, where it stores its key-value pairs. It's really just
>>>> that: the keys are stings, the values doubles. ES however creates a
>>>> mapping for every key of the hashmap as you can see above.
>>>>
>>>> Does someone here know what mapping I need to define to avoid that?
>>>>
>>>> Also: Can I change this mapping on the already existing index, or do I
>>>> have to create a new index, then create a mapping, then copy over the
>>>> data from the old index?
>>>>
>>>> Many Thanks!
>>>> |
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