Elasticsearch GeoMapping with PHP not working - php

Question

I have the following mapping in Elasticsearch 2.2
"clinics" : {
"mappings" : {
"clinic" : {
"properties" : {
"address_1" : {
"type" : "string",
"analyzer" : "standard"
},
"city" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"country" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"id" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"location" : {
"type" : "geo_point"
},
"name" : {
"type" : "string",
"analyzer" : "standard"
},
"state" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"zipcode" : {
"type" : "string",
"analyzer" : "standard"
}
}
}
}
},
I am using PHP to add to the index with Elastiquent5. my toArray() is:
public function toArray()
{
$array = parent::toArray();
$object = new \stdClass();
$object->lat = $array['latitude'];
$object->lon = $array['longitude'];
$array['location'] = $object;
return $array;
}
When I try to add the item to the index i get the following error:
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"remote_transport_exception","reason":"[Solarman][10.0.2.15:9300][indices:data/write/index[p]]"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"[location] is defined as an object in mapping [clinics] but this name is already used for a field in other types"},"status":400}
In json format it yields correctly, in php array it is:
array:10 [
"name" => "Clinic A"
"address_1" => "123 Main St"
"city" => "NY"
"state" => "NY"
"zipcode" => "11111"
"country" => "US"
"id" => 6968
"location" => {#526
+"lat": 45.2116373
+"lon": -72.1891546
}
]
If I manually json_encode this and use the curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200' -d ''
it goes through - however the PHP doesnt. Any idea where I went wrong?
clarification
My goal is to insert the coordinate that my model data is extracting to map to the location field inside the index since I already designed as a geo_point type as defined by my mapping
I do not want to designate a new field in order to solve this. Secondary note: as I mentioned doing a put with the json will yield successfully however not as a php object out with the php drivers for elastic search which yielded the error when it tried to create the document

Answer 1

As mentioned in the error message, [location] is defined as an object in mapping [clinics] but this name is already used for a field in properties. Changing the variable name like the following might work.
public function toArray()
{
$array = parent::toArray();
$object = new \stdClass();
$object->lat = $array['latitude'];
$object->lon = $array['longitude'];
$array['location_ob'] = $object;
return $array;
}