Mapping - Support specifying string as number values (for example, for boost)

[clintongormley]

Hiya

Try this:

curl -XPUT 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/foo/bar/_mapping?ignoreConflicts=false'  -d '
{
   "properties" : {
      "name" : {
         "boost" : "2.0",
         "type" : "string"
      }
   }
}
'

Results in:
{
"error" : "NullPointerException[null]"
}

[kimchy]

Bad exception... . But basically, it expects the boost to be a float, and not a string. If you change that, it will work. Let me do the same fix as the number types to support passing string values for numbers here as well...

[kimchy]

Mapping - Support specifying string as number values (for example, for boost), closed by 7c68489.