elasticsearch的父子,elasticsearch 2.0父子孙

My operation:

parent: country, child: branch, grandchild: employee

PUT /company { "mappings": {

"branch": {

"_parent": {

"type": "country"

}

},

"employee": {

"_parent": {

"type": "branch"

}

} } }

I want add a grandchild employee2, parent is branch:

PUT /company/employee2/_mapping { "employee2": {

"_parent": {

"type": "branch"

} } }

I get wrong message:

{ "error": {

"root_cause": [

{

"type": "illegal_argument_exception",

"reason": "can't add a _parent field that points to an already existing type"

}

],

"type": "illegal_argument_exception",

"reason": "can't add a _parent field that points to an already existing type" }, "status": 400 }

I don't know how can i do. Have any suggestion? Thanks.

解决方案

This is a restriction imposed in elasticsearch 2.0.

This is mentioned in breaking changes in 2.0. However the reason behind this this is not clear in the document.

Below is what martijnvg an elasticsearch developer posted on elasticsearch discuss threads:

a new child type can't point to an existing type as parent.

This has to do with the fact that with the new parent/child

implementation both parent and child types store ids in a join field.

If type becomes a parent after it has been created then parent

documents may have been indexed that didn't store their id in the join

field. For this reason this restriction exists.

This only applies for new indices created after the upgrade to ES 2.0.

For migration purposes this restriction doesn't apply for indices

created before the upgrade to ES 2.0. In fact on created on ES 1.x and

before the old parent/child implementation is being used.