How to do it...

Let's use a semi real-world example of a shop order for our eBay-like shop:

1. First, we define an order:

1. Our order record must be converted into an Elasticsearch mapping definition as follows:

PUT test/_mapping
{
    "properties" : {
      "id" : {"type" : "keyword"},
      "date" : {"type" : "date"},
      "customer_id" : {"type" : "keyword"},
      "sent" : {"type" : "boolean"},
      "name" : {"type" : "keyword"},
      "quantity" : {"type" : "integer"},
      "price" : {"type" : "double"},
      "vat" : {"type" : "double", "index":"false"}
    }
}

Now, the mapping is ready to be put in the index. We will see how to do this in the Putting a Mapping in an Index recipe in Chapter 4, Basic Operations.