Exclude a field on a Elasticsearch query

Question

Having the following mapping:

curl -XPUT \'localhost:9200/testidx?pretty=true\' -d \'{
  \"mappings\": {
    \"items\": {
       \"dynamic\": \"strict\",
                


        

Answer 1

Up to elasticsearch 6.0.0 you can set "include_in_all": false to your index field properties, see e.g. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/include-in-all.html.

(This of course needs a reindexing of the data.)