If you are using the default date or the named identifiers of dates,
the current implementation was allowed to read a year with only one
digit. In order to make this more strict, this fixes a year to be at
least 4 digits. Same applies for month, day, hour, minute, seconds.
Also the new default is `strictDateOptionalTime` for indices created
with Elasticsearch 2.0 or newer.
In addition a couple of not exposed date formats have been exposed, as they
have been mentioned in the documentation.
Closes#6158
This is a follow up to #8143 and #6730 for _timestamp. It removes
support for `path`, as well as any field type settings, and
enables docvalues for _timestamp, for 2.0. Users who need to
adjust these settings can use a date field.
This commit changes the date handling. First and foremost Elasticsearch
does not try to convert every date to a unix timestamp first and then
uses the configured date. This now allows for dates like `2015121212` to
be parsed correctly.
Instead it is now explicit by adding a `epoch_second` and `epoch_millis`
date format. This also means, that the default date format now is
`epoch_millis||dateOptionalTime` to remain backwards compatible.
Closes#5328
Relates #10971
Related to #9049.
By default, the default value for `timestamp` is `now` which means the date the document was processed by the indexing chain.
You can now reject documents which not provide a `timestamp` value by setting `ignore_missing` to false (default to `true`):
```js
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"ignore_missing" : false
}
}
}
```
When you update the cluster to 1.5 or master, this index created with 1.4 we automatically migrate an index created with 1.4 to the 1.5 syntax.
Let say you have defined this in elasticsearch 1.4.x:
```js
DELETE test
PUT test
{
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 1,
"number_of_replicas": 0
}
}
PUT test/type/_mapping
{
"type" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"default" : null
}
}
}
```
After migration, the mapping become:
```js
{
"test": {
"mappings": {
"type": {
"_timestamp": {
"enabled": true,
"store": false,
"ignore_missing": false
},
"properties": {}
}
}
}
}
```
Closes#8882.
Storing `_timestamp` by default means that under the default configuration, you
would have all the information you need in order to reindex into a different
index.
Close#8139
Index process fails when having `_timestamp` enabled and `path` option is set.
It fails with a `TimestampParsingException[failed to parse timestamp [null]]` message.
Reproduction:
```
DELETE test
PUT test
{
"mappings": {
"test": {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : "yes",
"path" : "post_date"
}
}
}
}
PUT test/test/1
{
"foo": "bar"
}
```
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 disable that default value by setting `default` to `null`. It means that `timestamp` is mandatory:
```
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"default" : null
}
}
}
```
If you don't provide any timestamp value, indexation will fail.
You can also set the default value to any date respecting timestamp format:
```
{
"tweet" : {
"_timestamp" : {
"enabled" : true,
"format" : "YYYY-MM-dd",
"default" : "1970-01-01"
}
}
}
```
If you don't provide any timestamp value, indexation will fail.
Closes#4718.
Closes#7036.
Clinton Gormley
Alexander Reelsen
Ryan Ernst
David Pilato
Alban Perillat-Merceroz
Adrien Grand
hanneskaeufler
Konrad Feldmeier