Elasticsearch always returning “mapping type is missing”

Question

I\'m following the advice given here in order to find partial words with elasticsearch:

ElasticSearch n-gram tokenfilter not finding partial words

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Answer 1

Turns out this is happening because the mapping needs to be applied to the type:

I tried applying it to the wrong thing:

curl -XPUT 10.160.86.134:9200/products/_mapping -d '{

It needs to be applied to the type like so:

curl -XPUT 10.160.86.134:9200/products/product/_mapping -d '{

It's sad that a simple google search couldn't answer this. Also the previous post I linked to is very misleading and the answer is wrong, which I'll point out there as well.