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

I think Travis was right, maybe this error came from some old version of ES, a "type" in some old version of ES is just like a table in the relational database, an "index" is like a database, a "doc" is like a record. Nowadays, the "type" seemed to disappear.

you can see this from here.

I don't know why I can't upload a picture.