Failure inserting document with explicit null in range field #27845
Description
in 5.6.4 the last PUT statement fails, although it is equivalent to the previous insertions
DELETE model_range_index
PUT model_range_index { "mappings": { "my_type": { "properties": { "my_int": { "type": "integer" }, "my_int_range": { "type": "integer_range" } } } } }
PUT model_range_index/my_type/1 { "my_int": 7 }
PUT model_range_index/my_type/2 { "my_int": 7, "my_int_range": [] }
PUT model_range_index/my_type/3 { "my_int": 7, "my_int_range": null }
This is the error response:
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "error parsing field [my_int_range], expected an object but got my_int_range"
}
],
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse [my_int_range]",
"caused_by": {
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "error parsing field [my_int_range], expected an object but got my_int_range"
}
},
"status": 400
}