Can't get geo_point to work with Bonsai on Heroku - heroku

Question

I'm trying to use a geo_point field on Heroku/Bonsai but it just doesn't want to work.
It works in local, but whenever I check the mapping for my index on Heroku/Bonsai it says my field is a string: "coordinates":{"type":"string"}
My mapping looks like this:
tire.mapping do
...
indexes :coordinates, type: "geo_point", lat_lon: true
...
end
And my to_indexed_json like this:
def to_indexed_json
{
...
coordinates: map_marker.nil? ? nil : [map_marker.latitude, map_marker.longitude].join(','),
...
}.to_json
end
In the console on Heroku I tried MyModel.mapping and MyModel.index.mapping and the first one correctly has :coordinates=>{:type=>"geo_point", :lat_lon=>true}.

Answer 1

Here's how I got this to work. Index name 'myindex' type name 'myindextype'
On the local machine
curl -XGET https://[LOCAL_ES_URL]/myindex/myindextype/_mapping
save the output to a .json file. example: typedefinition.json (or hand build one)
{
"myindextype":{
"properties":{
"dataone":{"type":"string"},
"datatwo":{"type":"double"},
"location":{"type":"geo_point"},
"datathree":{"type":"long"},
"datafour":{"type":"string"}
}
}
}
On heroku enter the command
heroku config
and get the BONSAI_URL. Put it in the follwoing commands in place of [BONSAI_URL]. (https://asdfasdfdsf:asdfadf#asdfasdfasdf.us-east-1.bonsai.io/myindex)
curl -XDELETE https://[BONSAI_URL]/myindex
curl -XPOST https://[BONSAI_URL]/myindex
curl -XPUT -d#typedefinition.json https://[BONSAI_URL]/myindex/myindextype/_mapping
curl -XGET https://[BONSAI_URL]/myindex/myindextype/_mapping
Deletes the indes if it exists.
Createds an empty index.
Uses the .json file as a definition for mapping.
Get the new mapping to make sure it worked.