You can't. You basically need to reindex.
That said, you can try to use a multifield which add a String representation of the same field. But old values (old docs) won't have this new field populated. HTH -- David ;-) Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 21 juin 2014 à 06:00, srikanth ramineni <[email protected]> a écrit : Hi , can you please provide inputs to update the existing field type in the mapping.Below is the requirement. I have crated contractIndex and it is type is conract. In that i have fields contractid as long, contract number as long but i want to change contract number type as string. Thanks, Srikanth. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e80c0884-9e18-4af2-8c04-69cde01fd3ab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3FB4C99C-F209-4697-A902-3582C21711BF%40pilato.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
