From 334b408e15708ea6c9987e5bd95356cbdbbe52e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Beahan <eric.beahan@elastic.co>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:42:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add flattened type support to Go code generator (#1302)

---
 CHANGELOG.next.md                  | 2 ++
 scripts/cmd/gocodegen/gocodegen.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.md b/CHANGELOG.next.md
index cb6b11e399..094ad9287e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.md
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Thanks, you're awesome :-) -->
 
 #### Improvements
 
+* Go code generator now supports the `flattened` data type. #1302
+
 #### Deprecated
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/cmd/gocodegen/gocodegen.go b/scripts/cmd/gocodegen/gocodegen.go
index 4ec88739f9..9044f0bf35 100644
--- a/scripts/cmd/gocodegen/gocodegen.go
+++ b/scripts/cmd/gocodegen/gocodegen.go
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ func goDataType(fieldName, elasticsearchDataType string) string {
 		return "time.Time"
 	case "boolean":
 		return "bool"
-	case "object":
+	case "object", "flattened":
 		return "map[string]interface{}"
 	default:
 		log.Fatalf("no translation for %v (field %s)", elasticsearchDataType, fieldName)