Very nice Radu. I love this trick. :)

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> Le 8 janv. 2015 à 14:43, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Paresh,
> 
> If you want to sort on the field, I think it has to be the same type. So if 
> you make everything a double, it should work for all numeric fields. To do 
> that, you can use dynamic templates 
> <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/mapping-root-object-type.html#_dynamic_templates>.
>  For example if you have this:
> 
>   "mappings" : {
>     "_default_" : {
>        "dynamic_templates" : [ {
>          "long_to_float" : {
>            "match" : "*",
>            "match_mapping_type" : "long",
>            "mapping" : {
>              "type" : "float"
>            }
>          }
>        } ]
>      }
>   }
> 
> And add a new field with value=32, the field would be mapped as float instead 
> of long.
> 
> Best regards,
> Radu
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> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Paresh Behede <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have requirement of storing document in elastic search which will have 
> dynamic fields + those fields could have different data types values...
> 
> For e.g., 
> Document 1 could have age field with value = 32, so when I would insert 1st 
> document in ES my index mapping will get created and age will be mapped to 
> Integer/Long
> 
> Now if I get age = 32.5 in another document ES will throw me exception of 
> data type mismatch...
> 
> Can you suggest what can I do to handle such scenario?
> 
> As workaround we are creating different fields for different data types like 
> age.long / age.double but this also won't work if I have to do sorting over 
> age field...
> 
> Kindly suggest...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paresh Behede
> 
> 
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