I've got some objects in a Firebase database which I'm using along with ElasticSearch to perform advanced queries.
However, when I had to change a property in one of those objects from a string, organizer: "some name" to organizer: {id: "someId", name: "some name"}, ElasticSearch can no longer index the object, saying:
[mapper_parsing_exception] failed to parse [organizer] Can't get text on a START_OBJECT
The data objects which remain as organizer: "" gets indexed properly, but the new structured objects does not. I don't understand why this is happening since I don't provide a custom mapping of these objects (I'm using Firebase Flashlight to make it easier).
Can someone with more knowledge let me know how I can resolve this issue? It's causing big problems since I can't search for those objects anymore.
When you indexed organizer: "some name" the first time, a new field of type string (or text) has been created.
Now you try to index organizer: {id: "someId", name: "some name"} which is not a string anymore but an object, so that won't work.
You need to delete your index and properly reindex your data.