geo_shape null geometry

[jillesvangurp]

I have a geojson file generated using ogr2ogr from a shape file.Unfortunately some of the geometry objects are null but I still want to index the other meta data. Currently I get a parse error on these documents because the geo_shape parser is not handling json nulls. I think it would be nicer to not fail and simply not index the geo_shape field for those fields. Would it be possible to fix this?

Here's a sample document. It fails on the geometry field (which is mapped to geo_shape). The error I get is: MapperParsingException[failed to parse [geometry]]; nested: ElasticSearchParseException[Shape must be an object consisting of type and coordinates];

{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "name": "吉井町宮田", "qs_id": 856730, "gn_id": null, "woe_id": 28484701, "gn_id_eh": null, "woe_id_eh": null, "gn_name": null, "gn_ascii": null, "gn_country": null, "gn_admin1": null, "gn_admin2": null, "gn_pop": null, "gn_fclass": null, "gn_fcode": null, "woe_name": "吉井町宮田", "woe_nameen": null, "placetype": "LocalAdmin", "iso": "JP", "language": "JPN", "parent_id": 28379393, "woe_local": 28379393, "woe_lau": 28484701, "woe_adm2": 0, "woe_adm1": 58646425, "woe_adm0": 23424856, "name_local": "うきは市", "name_lau": "吉井町宮田", "name_adm2": null, "name_adm1": "福岡県", "name_adm0": "日本", "gns_id": null, "accuracy": null, "matchtype": null, "geom_qual": null, "woe_funk": null, "photos": null, "photos_all": null, "woemembers": null, "photos_1k": null, "photos_9k": null, "photos_sr": 0, "photos_9r": 0, "pop_sr": 0 }, "geometry": null }

[chilling]

Hi @jillesvangurp, setting shapes to null is part of the geo-refactoring in 1.0 inspired by #2708. Nevertheless the current version also throws a parsing exception. I'll fix this for 1.0 as soon as possible.