Elasticsearch can't update non dynamic settings

Question

I am trying to create a test analyzer to experiment on analysis on Elastic Search. I have an index created called "mytest" which is available and searchable, but when I try to create a custom analyzer I get below error

{
"error": "ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[Can't update non dynamic settings[[index.analysis.analyzer.content.type, index.analysis.analyzer.content.tokenizer]] for open indices [[mytest]]]",
"status": 400
}

Now I am not sure on restrictions on updating settings but I could not find anything in documentation. I can create the analyze when creating the index, but update does not work.

Using the source below to create analyzer

PUT mytest/_settings
{
  "analysis" : {
    "analyzer":{
      "content":{
        "type":"custom",
        "tokenizer":"whitespace"
      }
    }
  }
}

Any ideas ?

this may [help](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12367877/change-settings-and-mappings-on-existing-index-in-elasticsearch) — keety, Sep 11 '15 at 14:38

score 36 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You can't update the settings of index when the index is in open status. You need to close the index and update the settings and open the index.

Refer : error when trying to update the settings

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Mar 28 '16 at 07:51

Santhoshle

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Is there a workaround for this. Unfortunately, AWS does not support the _close operation – GeorgeButter Jul 29 '20 at 06:56
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@Buts possible since 7.4: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/aes-supported-es-operations.html#es_version_7_4 – Guillaume Feb 17 '21 at 10:39
@Guillaume Thanks, we actually switched all out projects to GCP recently because they resolved some of the blockers for us. – GeorgeButter Feb 17 '21 at 22:08
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Adding python example would be nice – Serhii Kushchenko Jul 14 '22 at 15:13
thank you so much! closing, updating and reopening is the way to go, unless we want to specify all the settings during the index creation – asgs Jun 15 '23 at 16:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '21 at 09:08

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If trying to set non-dynamic settings in Elasticsearch DSL for Python, make sure to pass them to index.settings() instead of the dynamic index.put_settings().

answered Oct 20 '21 at 09:08

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