elasticsearch/elasticsearch — Issue #1473: Allow empty Strings to be null for Number's
Author: kbachl
Created: 2011-11-16 10:59:43+00:00
State: open

Request from thread: NumberFormatException issues caused by an empty string
https://groups.google.com/group/elasticsearch/browse_thread/thread/0d30ae7b65084ab0/5d443b25a079db52#5d443b25a079db52

...."could please a feature be
introduced to have a flag at numbers like integer, float, etc, so we
can have ES make empty Strings a "null" value instead?
Currently an empty String "" ceates a
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: Failed to parse
[field] exception; "....