From 0032b334c5ac34caf7cb8c1ac7277ec0f6cf07f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shay Banon <kimchy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:06:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add simple way to get the index creation version when
 building a mapper

---
 .../java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/Mapper.java    | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/Mapper.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/Mapper.java
index a29542966cd..74d68341ae9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/Mapper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/Mapper.java
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.index.mapper;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import org.elasticsearch.Version;
+import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetaData;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
@@ -55,6 +57,14 @@ public interface Mapper extends ToXContent {
         public Settings indexSettings() {
             return this.indexSettings;
         }
+
+        @Nullable
+        public Version indexCreatedVersion() {
+            if (indexSettings == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            return indexSettings.getAsVersion(IndexMetaData.SETTING_VERSION_CREATED, null);
+        }
     }
 
     public static abstract class Builder<T extends Builder, Y extends Mapper> {