indexing json with json value in elasticsearch - json

Question

I am trying to index a document in elasticsearch. The json I have comes from the document being transformed from XML to JSON. It is valid JSON. Looks like this:
{
"shortcasename": {
"_attributes": {
"party1": "People",
"party2": "Johnson"
},
"_children": [
"People",
{
"connector": {
"_attributes": {
"normval": "v"
},
"_children": [
" v. "
]
}
},
"Johnson"
]
}
}
Elasitcsearch seems to have a problem with the shortcasename._children. The error I get is:
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse"
}
],
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse",
"caused_by": {
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "mapper [shortcasename._children] of different type, current_type [string], merged_type [ObjectMapper]"
}
},
"status": 400
}
Is there a way to get the json to be indexed the way it is?

Answer 1

The JSON you have has a conflict with the _children field:
{
"shortcasename": {
"_attributes": {
"party1": "People",
"party2": "Johnson"
},
"_children": [
"People",
{
"connector": {
"_attributes": {
"normval": "v"
},
"_children": [
" v. "
]
}
},
"Johnson"
]
}
}
The top-level _children field is an array containing a mix of objects ({"connector": ...}) and strings ("People", "Johnson"). Elasticsearch doesn't support that, that's why it complains that it cannot merge string and Object