Document metadata fields
Each document has metadata associated with it, such as the _index
and _id
metadata fields. The behavior of some of these metadata fields can be customized when a mapping is created.
_source
- The original JSON representing the body of the document.
_size
- The size of the
_source
field in bytes, provided by themapper-size
plugin.
_doc_count
- A custom field used for storing doc counts when a document represents pre-aggregated data.
_field_names
- All fields in the document which contain non-null values.
_ignored
- All fields in the document that have been ignored at index time because of
ignore_malformed
.
_routing
- A custom routing value which routes a document to a particular shard.