How to do it...

The HTTP method to put a mapping is PUT (POST also works). The URL format for putting a mapping is as follows:

http://<server>/<index_name>/_mapping

To put a mapping in an index, we will perform the following steps:

1. If we consider a possible order data model to be used as a mapping, the call will be as follows:

PUT /myindex/_mapping
{
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "keyword",
      "store": true
    },
    "date": {
      "type": "date",
      "store": false
    },
    "customer_id": {
      "type": "keyword",
      "store": true
    },
    "sent": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "text"
    },
    "quantity": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "vat": {
      "type": "double",
      "index": false
    }
  }
}

1. In the case of a success, the result returned by Elasticsearch should be like this:

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}