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Meta-Fields

Each document has metadata associated with it, such as the _index, mapping _type, and _id meta-fields. The behaviour of some of these meta-fields can be customised when a mapping type is created.

Identity meta-fields

`_index`	The index to which the document belongs.
`_type`	The document’s mapping type.
`_id`	The document’s ID.

Document source meta-fields

_source: The original JSON representing the body of the document.
_size: The size of the _source field in bytes, provided by the mapper-size plugin.

Indexing meta-fields

_field_names: All fields in the document which contain non-null values.
_ignored: All fields in the document that have been ignored at index time because of ignore_malformed.

Routing meta-field

_routing: A custom routing value which routes a document to a particular shard.

Other meta-field

_meta: Application specific metadata.

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