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Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook. - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook. - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956504
Pages 724 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
Profile icon Alberto Paro

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Managing Mapping 3. Basic Operations 4. Exploring Search Capabilities 5. Text and Numeric Queries 6. Relationship and Geo Queries 7. Aggregations 8. Scripting in Elasticsearch 9. Managing Clusters 10. Backups and Restoring Data 11. User Interfaces 12. Using the Ingest Module 13. Java Integration 14. Scala Integration 15. Python Integration 16. Plugin Development 17. Big Data Integration 1. Another Book You May Enjoy

Adding metadata to a mapping

Sometimes, when we are working with our mapping, it is required to store some additional data to be used for display purposes, ORM facilities, permissions, or simply to track them in the mapping.

Elasticsearch allows you to store every kind of JSON data you want in the mapping with the special _meta field.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

How to do it...

The _meta mapping field can be populated with any data we want. Consider...

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