Hello everyone, I have a question on how Elasticsearch returns JSON representations of fields with the "date" type. My confusion comes from the fact that the page http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html says:
"The date type is a special type which maps to JSON string type. It follows a specific format that can be explicitly set. *All dates are UTC. Internally, a date maps to a number type long, with the added parsing stage from string to long and from long to string.*" (emphasis mine) It sounds like dates are stored as type 'long'. But when I POST documents with dates and then retrieve them, they are returned in the same format as I POSTed them. So it appears ES is storing how I POSTed each date somewhere. I have a reproducible curl example demonstrating my confusion in more detail on Stackoverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29157945/how-does-elasticsearch-convert-dates-to-json-string-representations Thank you for any insights! Best, --Erik Iverson -- 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/add6bafe-bdba-406e-b95d-ade17d0a9df5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
