Elasticsearch date type

Date maps JSON string to date type. All dates are UTC and internally mapped to long value.

For all the predefined date formats

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-date-format.html

Delete employee type if is there any…

DELETE /organization/_mapping/employee

PUT /organization/_mapping/employee
{
 "employee":{
  "properties" : {
   "firstName" : {"type" : "string", "store" : true},
   "lastName" : {"type" : "string", "store" : true},
   "salary" : {"type" : "double", "store" : true},
   "isPermanent" : {"type" : "boolean", "store" : true},
   "joiningDate" : {"type" : "date", "format" : "yyyyMMdd"}
  }
 }
}

You can check the mapping like below.

GET /organization/_mapping/employee

You will get following response.

{
   "organization": {
      "mappings": {
         "employee": {
            "properties": {
               "firstName": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "store": true
               },
               "isPermanent": {
                  "type": "boolean",
                  "store": true
               },
               "joiningDate": {
                  "type": "date",
                  "format": "yyyyMMdd"
               },
               "lastName": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "store": true
               },
               "salary": {
                  "type": "double",
                  "store": true
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

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