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[[mapping-timestamp-field]]
=== `_timestamp`
The `_timestamp` field allows to automatically index the timestamp of a
document. It can be provided externally via the index request or in the
`_source`. If it is not provided externally it will be automatically set
to a <<mapping-timestamp-field-default,default date>>.
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==== enabled
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By default it is disabled. In order to enable it, the following mapping
should be defined:
[source,js]
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{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : { "enabled" : true }
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
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==== store / index
By default the `_timestamp` field has `store` set to `true` and `index`
set to `not_analyzed`. It can be queried as a standard date field.
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==== path
The `_timestamp` value can be provided as an external value when
indexing. But, it can also be automatically extracted from the document
to index based on a `path`. For example, having the following mapping:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"path" : "post_date"
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
Will cause `2009-11-15T14:12:12` to be used as the timestamp value for:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"message" : "You know, for Search",
"post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12"
}
--------------------------------------------------
Note, using `path` without explicit timestamp value provided requires an
additional (though quite fast) parsing phase.
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[[mapping-timestamp-field-format]]
==== format
You can define the <<mapping-date-format,date
format>> used to parse the provided timestamp value. For example:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"path" : "post_date",
"format" : "YYYY-MM-dd"
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
Note, the default format is `dateOptionalTime`. The timestamp value will
first be parsed as a number and if it fails the format will be tried.
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[[mapping-timestamp-field-default]]
==== default
You can define a default value for when timestamp is not provided
within the index request or in the `_source` document.
By default, the default value is `now` which means the date the document was processed by the indexing chain.
You can reject documents which do not provide a `timestamp` value by setting `ignore_missing` to false (default to `true`):
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"ignore_missing" : false
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
You can also set the default value to any date respecting <<mapping-timestamp-field-format,timestamp format>>:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"format" : "YYYY-MM-dd",
"default" : "1970-01-01"
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
If you don't provide any timestamp value, _timestamp will be set to this default value.
In elasticsearch 1.4, we allowed setting explicitly `"default":null` which is not possible anymore
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as we added a new `ignore_missing` setting.
When reading an index created with elasticsearch 1.4 and using this, we automatically update it by
removing `"default": null` and setting `"ignore_missing": false`