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Clarify that path_match also considers object fields. #41658

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29 changes: 26 additions & 3 deletions docs/reference/mapping/dynamic/templates.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -198,14 +198,37 @@ PUT my_index
PUT my_index/_doc/1
{
"name": {
"first": "Alice",
"middle": "Mary",
"last": "White"
"first": "John",
"middle": "Winston",
"last": "Lennon"
}
}
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// CONSOLE

Note that the `path_match` and `path_unmatch` parameters match on object paths
in addition to leaf fields. As an example, indexing the following document will
result in an error because the `path_match` setting also matches the object
field `name.title`:
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May be just finish the sentence a little why it results in an error, something like this:
"..also matches the object field name.title which can't be indexed as text".

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[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT my_index/_doc/2
{
"name": {
"first": "Paul",
"last": "McCartney",
"title": {
"value": "Sir",
"category": "order of chivalry"
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]
// TEST[catch:bad_request]

[[template-variables]]
==== `{name}` and `{dynamic_type}`

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