Using python how can I register specific mapping definition?

Question

In the elasticsearch-py docs I can't find an example registering a mapping, which performs what these REST API docs say:

The put mapping API allows to register specific mapping definition for a specific type.

$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_mapping' -d '
{
    "tweet" : {
        "properties" : {
            "message" : {"type" : "string", "store" : true }
        }
    }
}
'

Answer 1

Doing anything with the index involves the Indices APIs. PUTing mapping is also one of many Indices API. They can be found in the Indices section under API Documentation of the Python client docs.

And you need this: put_mapping(*args, **kwargs).

Answer 2

Here is a complete example :

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
def fMap(document_type):
    mapping={document_type:{\
             "properties":{\
             "a_field":{"type":"integer","store":"yes"},\
             "other_field": {"type":"string","index":"analyzed","store":"no"},\
             "title":{"type":"string","store":"yes","index": "analyzed","term_vector":"yes","similarity":"BM25"},\
             "content":{"type":"string","store":"yes","index":  "analyzed","term_vector": "yes","similarity":"BM25"}\
             }}}
    return mapping
def dSetting(nShards,nReplicas):
    dSetting={
    "settings":{"index":{"number_of_shards":nShards,"number_of_replicas":nReplicas}},\
    "analysis":{\
        "filter":{\
        "my_english":{"type":"english","stopwords_path":"english.txt"},\
        "english_stemmer":{"type":"stemmer","language":"english"}},\
        "analyzer":{"english":{"filter":["lowercase","my_english","english_stemmer"]}}}}
    return dSetting
def EsSetup(con,idx,docType,dset,mapping):
    con.indices.delete(index=idx,ignore=[400, 404])
    con.indices.create(index=idx,body=dset,ignore=400)
    con.indices.put_mapping(index=idx,doc_type=docType,body=mapping)

conEs=Elasticsearch([{'host':'localhost','port':9200,'timeout':180}])
dMap = fMap('docTypeName')
dSet = dSetting(8,1)
EsSetup(conEs,'idxName','docTypeName',dset,dMap)