Ah ok, we convert between these formats so it's completely transparent to the end user and easier to store under the hood.
On 20 March 2015 at 12:39, Roger de Cordova Farias < [email protected]> wrote: > Well, the company won't edit his source anyway :p (but I get your point, > I'm used to refer to Elasticsearch as Elastic, I have to fix it) > > I think his question is: he posts a document with a date in string format > and retrieve it in the same format. He was expecting to retrieve it as long > type since it is the type Elasticsearch uses internally. > > I'm not familiar with the internal code of Elasticsearch, but as far as I > know, it won't change the source during indexing. It probably uses long > type in the index, but when you retrieve the source, you retrieve the > exactly source you posted > > 2015-03-20 16:16 GMT-03:00 Mark Walkom <[email protected]>: > >> It's Elasticsearch, Elastic is the company :) >> >> >> We convert dates to unix epoch, which is why you should insert them as >> UTC. >> >> On 20 March 2015 at 10:22, Roger de Cordova Farias < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Elastic won't edit your source. The long type is used internally >>> >>> 2015-03-20 14:16 GMT-03:00 Erik Iverson <[email protected]>: >>> >>> 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 >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/add6bafe-bdba-406e-b95d-ade17d0a9df5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> 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/CAJp2530Vwz99jV1K0JWNpGkOvR23PhHPAPacc-oROO0hZFjA0g%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAJp2530Vwz99jV1K0JWNpGkOvR23PhHPAPacc-oROO0hZFjA0g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> 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/CAEYi1X84ecBBxOfBFNkKt3EKLSUiTCHAkqpv4fV44W30dYx-cw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X84ecBBxOfBFNkKt3EKLSUiTCHAkqpv4fV44W30dYx-cw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> 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/CAJp2533uGXxG_drPabJN48d_7ZgbXxhLKZaxnRrm%2BK3-QuvmaQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAJp2533uGXxG_drPabJN48d_7ZgbXxhLKZaxnRrm%2BK3-QuvmaQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. 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