title: How to delete a field mapping in elastic search
body: <p>I have an index with following mapping </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
     "testmap": {
        "mappings": {
           "user": {
              "properties": {
                 "plans": {
                    "type": "nested",
                    "properties": {
                       "user": {
                          "type": "long"
                       }
                    }
                 },
                 "status": {
                    "type": "integer"
                 }
              }
           }
        }
     }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to delete status field mapping. I don't mind to loose data on that field. Is there any option to delete status field. 
  <strong>Tried</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -XDELETE http://192.168.2.2:9200/testmap/user/status
  {"found":false,"_index":"testmap","_type":"user","_id":"status","_version":1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Your help is much appreciated. Thank you. </p>