title: How to Do a Mapping of Array of Strings in Elasticsearch
body: <p>I can't find any examples of how to structure an array of strings in elasticsearch when trying to PUT a mapping to an index.</p>
  
  <p>What I have for the field mapping:</p>
  
  <p><code>:tags {:type :array :store true}</code></p>
  
  <p>The error i get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{:type "mapper_parsing_exception",
   :reason "No handler for type [array] declared on field [tags]"}
  </code></pre>