{"id":6150,"date":"2019-07-10T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:08:21","slug":"elasticsearch-error-illegal_argument_exception-rejecting-mapping-update-to-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/elasticsearch-error-illegal_argument_exception-rejecting-mapping-update-to-type\/","title":{"rendered":"ElasticSearch Error &#8211; illegal_argument_exception &#8211; Rejecting mapping update to type"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">########### COMMAND #################<\/h6>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">curl -XPUT <span class=\"hljs-string\">'localhost:9200\/products\/laptops\/4?pretty'<\/span> -H <span class=\"hljs-string\">'Content-Type: application\/json'<\/span> -d<span class=\"hljs-string\">'\n{\n  \"name\": \"Macbook Pro\",\n  \"storage\": \"500GB\",\n  \"RAM\": \"8GB\",\n  \"display\": \"13inch\",\n  \"os\": \"El Capitan\",\n  \"reviews\": &#91;\"A little bulky but a great Mac laptop\", \"The larger storage capacity is great\"]\n}\n'<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">########### OUTPUT   ###########  <\/h6>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">&#91;ec2-user@ip<span class=\"hljs-number\">-172<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">-31<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">-5<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">-179<\/span> ~]$ curl -XPUT <span class=\"hljs-string\">'localhost:9200\/products\/laptops\/4?pretty'<\/span> -H <span class=\"hljs-string\">'Content-Type: application\/json'<\/span> -d<span class=\"hljs-string\">'\n&gt; {\n&gt;   \"name\": \"Macbook Pro\",\n&gt;   \"storage\": \"500GB\",\n&gt;   \"RAM\": \"8GB\",\n&gt;   \"display\": \"13inch\",\n&gt;   \"os\": \"El Capitan\",\n&gt;   \"reviews\": &#91;\"A little bulky but a great Mac laptop\", \"The larger storage capacity is great\"]\n&gt; }\n&gt; '<\/span>\n{\n  <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"error\"<\/span> : {\n    <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"root_cause\"<\/span> : &#91;\n      {\n        <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"type\"<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"illegal_argument_exception\"<\/span>,\n        <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"reason\"<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Rejecting mapping update to &#91;products] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: &#91;mobiles, laptops]\"<\/span>\n      }\n    ],\n    <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"type\"<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"illegal_argument_exception\"<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"reason\"<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Rejecting mapping update to &#91;products] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: &#91;mobiles, laptops]\"<\/span>\n  },\n  <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"status\"<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-number\">400<\/span>\n}<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple mapping types are not supported in indices created in 6.0<br> The ability to have multiple mapping types per index has been removed in 6.0. New indices will be restricted to a single type. This is the first step in the plan to remove mapping types altogether. Indices created in 5.x will continue to support multiple mapping types.<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-3\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">curl -XPUT <span class=\"hljs-string\">'localhost:9200\/products-temp\/laptops\/1?pretty'<\/span> -H <span class=\"hljs-string\">'Content-Type: application\/json'<\/span> -d<span class=\"hljs-string\">'\n{\n  \"name\": \"Macbook Pro\",\n  \"storage\": \"500GB\",\n  \"RAM\": \"8GB\",\n  \"display\": \"13inch\",\n  \"os\": \"El Capitan\",\n  \"reviews\": &#91;\"A little bulky but a great Mac laptop\", \"The larger storage capacity is great\"]\n}\n'<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-3\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>########### COMMAND ################# ########### OUTPUT ########### Solution Multiple mapping types are not supported in indices created in 6.0 The ability to have multiple mapping types per index&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5936],"tags":[4666,258,4352,3618,293,213],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elastic","tag-elasticsearch","tag-error","tag-mapping","tag-multiple","tag-troubleshooting","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}