After creating an index, the next step is to add some type mappings to it. We saw how to put a mapping via the REST API in Chapter 4, Basic Operations. In this recipe, we will see how to manage mappings via the official Python client and PyES.
You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the required packages that are used in the Creating a client recipe in this chapter.
The code of this recipe is present in chapter_11/mapping_management.py and chapter_11/mapping_management_pyes.py file, which is available in the code bundle of this book and on GitHub (https://github.com/aparo/elasticsearch-cookbook-second-edition).
After you have initialized a client and created an index, the following actions are available in order to manage the indices:
Creating a mapping
Retrieving a mapping
Deleting a mapping
These steps can be easily managed with the following code:
Use the following code to initialize the client:
import elasticsearch es = elasticsearch.Elasticsearch...