Understanding type coercion¶

Supplying a floating point¶

PUT /coercion_test/_doc/1
{
  "price": 7.4
}

Supplying a floating point within a string¶

PUT /coercion_test/_doc/2
{
  "price": "7.4"
}

Supplying an invalid value¶

PUT /coercion_test/_doc/3
{
  "price": "7.4m"
}

Retrieve document¶

GET /coercion_test/_doc/2

Clean up¶

DELETE /coercion_test