Code to create the mappings in Java

mapping creation

 client.admin().indices().prepareCreate(source.toString().toLowerCase()).execute().actionGet();
 XContentBuilder xbMapping = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject().startObject("documents");
 xbMapping.startObject(ELASTIC_TTL).field("enabled", true).field("default", (30*60*1000)+"ms").endObject();
 xbMapping.startObject("properties");
 xbMapping.startObject("content").field("type", "string").endObject();
 xbMapping.startObject("insertedDate").field("type", "long").endObject();
 xbMapping.endObject();
 xbMapping.endObject().endObject();
 client.admin().indices().preparePutMapping("documents").setType("documents").setSource(xbMapping).execute().actionGet();