No mapping found for field in order to sort on in ElasticSearch

Question

Elasticsearch throws a SearchParseException while parsing query if there are some documents found not containing field used in sort criteria.

Answer 1

Elasticsearch 6.4

simply specify the index and that's it in Kibana

BEFORE

GET /_search
{
 
  "query": {
    "exists": {
      "field": "document_id"
    }
  },
  "sort": [
    {
      "document_id": { "order": "asc"  },
      "created_at":  { "order": "desc" }
    }
  ]
}

AFTER

GET /document-index/contact/_search  (here)
{

  "query": {
    "exists": {
      "field": "document_id"
    }
  },
  "sort": [
    {
      "document_id": { "order": "asc"  },
      "created_at":  { "order": "desc" }
    }
  ]
}