Mappings defined at index creation time in YAML are ignored

[yannk]

According to documentation I would have assumed that creation of mappings work in YAML too (since the first example on that page uses it):
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-create-index.html

In JSON, it works as expected:

{
    "settings": {
        "number_of_shards": 1,
        "number_of_replicas": 0
    },
    "content": {  
        "properties": {  
             "exact": {
                "index": "not_analyzed",
                "type": "string"
            }
        }
    }
}

But, the following doesn't work:

curl -XPUT $SERVER/$INDEX/ -d '
settings:
        number_of_shards: 1
        number_of_replicas: 0
mappings:
    content:
        properties:
            exact:
                index: not_analyzed
                type: string
'

Below is my indexing and searching setup:

curl -XPUT $SERVER/$INDEX/content/1 -d '  
{"exact": "The Field", "title": "one" }  
'  
curl -XPUT $SERVER/$INDEX/content/2 -d '  
{"exact": "Astro Nomical", "title": "The second title" }  
'                                                                                         

curl -XPOST $SERVER/$INDEX/_refresh                                                       

curl -XPOST $SERVER/$INDEX/content/_search -d '  
{  
  "query": {  
    "filtered": {  
      "filter": {  
        "term": {  
          "exact": "The Field"  
        }  
      },  
      "query": {  
        "match_all": {}  
      } 
    }  
  }  
} 
'

tested with 0.18 and 0.19.
Sorry for formatting. Github Markdown seems broken.

[kimchy]

Not for the create index API, in this case, ti is expected to be in json...

[kimchy]

Sorry, I meant when you provide both settings and mappings, it is expected to be provided in json, not yml. Only when you create just with settings, it supports yml. I will fix the docs.

[yannk]

Thanks! I'm sure documenting this will be useful to others.

[swackhamer]

Is this still the case? The documentation is still unclear: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html