Elasticsearch boolean multifield silently ignored #6587

curltest.sh

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/'
#{
#  "status" : 200,
#  "name" : "Spider-Man",
#  "version" : {
#    "number" : "1.3.2",
#    "build_hash" : "dee175dbe2f254f3f26992f5d7591939aaefd12f",
#    "build_timestamp" : "2014-08-13T14:29:30Z",
#    "build_snapshot" : false,
#    "lucene_version" : "4.9"
#  },
#  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
#}


curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test1/'

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test1/tweet/_mapping' -d '
{
    "tweet": {
        "properties": {
            "flag": {
                "type": "boolean",
                "store": true,
                "fields": {
                    "untouched": {
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "index": "no"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test1/tweet/_mapping' -d '
{
    "tweet": {
        "properties": {
            "message": {
                "type": "string",
                "store": true,
                "fields": {
                    "untouched": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "index": "no"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test1/_mapping/tweet?pretty=true'

# it works for the string field, but not for the boolean:
#
#{
#  "test1" : {
#    "mappings" : {
#      "tweet" : {
#        "properties" : {
#          "flag" : {
#            "type" : "boolean",
#            "store" : true
#          },
#          "message" : {
#            "type" : "string",
#            "store" : true,
#            "fields" : {
#              "untouched" : {
#                "type" : "string",
#                "index" : "no"
#              }
#            }
#          }
#        }
#      }
#    }
#  }
#}