elasticsearch dynamic templates for custom mappings not working - rest

Question

I'm trying to add dynamic templates. I've done
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index_items?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"mappings": {
"item": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"sales_price_in_cent_as_long": {
"match": "sales_price_in_cent",
"mapping": {
"type": "long"
}
},
"sales_price_formatted_as_double": {
"match": "sales_price_formatted",
"mapping": {
"type": "double"
}
},
...
}
]
}
}
}
'
So in "my_index_items" i got the type "item", when I now index an item (item has a field "sales_price_formatted" which has a value like "12,34") and lookup with GET 'localhost:9200/my_index_items/item/_mapping' it shows the "sales_price_formatted" as of type "text" instead of "double".
Am I doing something wrong? I thought, if an item has a field which is defined in the "match" property in my dynamic templates, then it wouldn't use its own default mechanism but the one defined here?

Answer 1

You have some missing curly brackets in your command. It should be like this:
{
"mappings": {
"item": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"sales_price_in_cent_as_long": {
"match": "sales_price_in_cent",
"mapping": {
"type": "long"
}
}
},
{
"sales_price_formatted_as_double": {
"match": "sales_price_formatted",
"mapping": {
"type": "double"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}