elasticsearch change field type mapping to nested

Question

I'm trying to change an elasticsearch field to nested, I'm having problems with the command to do this. I'm not sure if it's because it's a couple of fields down that is giving me grief.

Here's what I'm trying to input:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_mapping/data' -d '
{
"data" : {
    "properties" : {
        "parsed" : {
            "properties" : {
                "PMSetup" : {
                    "properties" : {
                        "Result" : {
                          "type" : "nested"
                          "include_in_parent" : true
                        },
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}   
}
'

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Mapping cannot be updated for existing fields. The only thing you can do is DELETE your index and then PUT it back and POST mapping all over again.