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Creating an index with the name "." causes strange behavior #2326

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lukasolson opened this issue Dec 15, 2014 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2381
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Creating an index with the name "." causes strange behavior #2326

lukasolson opened this issue Dec 15, 2014 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2381
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When you create a new index pattern of . (just a single period), when it saves, it saves it with a really funky name.

2014-12-15 14_50_23
@lukasolson lukasolson added the bug Fixes for quality problems that affect the customer experience label Dec 15, 2014
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It turns out that this is a bug with Elasticsearch's JS library. When you send a request to get the mapping for ".", it returns all mappings instead of giving some sort of error, and then when you create the index with "." in the URL, it is ignored and a document is inserted with a generated ID.

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Also, see elastic/elasticsearch#6736.

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So after talking about this, we decided it would be best to create some sort of validation on the client to prevent invalid index name patterns from being created.

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