gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

# Tested against 2.1.0 and 1.7.3

# Create the first document - note, string is a quoted
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/testindex/test/1' -d '{
    "data": "test",
    "number" : 1,
    "string" : "0"
}'

# Create the second document - note, string is NOT quoted
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/testindex/test/2' -d '{
    "data": "test",
    "number" : 1,
    "string" : 0
}'

sleep 5 #Wait for index to happen

# Mapping shows string to be mapped to a string
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/testindex/_mapping?pretty'

# However, elasticsearch returns a number for 2
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/testindex/test/1'
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/testindex/test/2'

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/testindex'