# Field analyzer usage
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 28, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997 "2011-11-28T16:27:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Sisu\_Alexandru](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sisu_Alexandru)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/1 "2011-11-28T16:27:58Z")
Hi,
I have a mapping and a setting, and the "body" field doesn't gets analyzed
by the "x\_analyzer".
MAPPING = {
"posting":
{
```
"properties":
{
"country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
"username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
"body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
```
"analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
}
}
and the index creation setting:
SETTINGS = {
"index": {
"number\_of\_shards": 1
}
,
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"x\_analyzer": {
"type": "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
},
}
So, it doesnt work.What am I doing wrong?
Tnx,
Alex
ps: If I change the "x\_analyzer" to "default" and
remove "analyzer": "x\_analyzer" from the mapping, everything goes okey.
---
### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/2 "2011-11-28T18:24:24Z")
What doesn't work? That would help a bit...
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a mapping and a setting, and the "body" field doesn't gets analyzed
> by the "x\_analyzer".
>
> MAPPING = {
> "posting":
> {
>
> ```
> "properties":
> {
> "country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
> "username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
> "body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
>
> ```
>
> "analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
> }
> }
>
> and the index creation setting:
>
> SETTINGS = {
> "index": {
> "number\_of\_shards": 1
> }
> ,
> "analysis": {
> "analyzer": {
> "x\_analyzer": {
> "type": "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
> },
> }
>
> So, it doesnt work.What am I doing wrong?
>
> Tnx,
>
> Alex
>
> ps: If I change the "x\_analyzer" to "default" and
> remove "analyzer": "x\_analyzer" from the mapping, everything goes okey.
---
### Author:  [@Sisu\_Alexandru](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sisu_Alexandru)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/3 "2011-11-28T22:46:05Z")
Well, the body field is not indexed by the x\_analyzer.
Actually all the fields are indexed by the standardanalyzer.
Other info:
My es configuration, doesn't have anything configured in the
elasticsearch.yml.
When I'm changing the name of the x\_analyzer to default, it works.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) wrote:
> What doesn't work? That would help a bit...
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a mapping and a setting, and the "body" field doesn't gets
> > analyzed by the "x\_analyzer".
> >
> > MAPPING = {
> > "posting":
> > {
> >
> > ```
> > "properties":
> > {
> > "country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
> > "username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
> > "body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
> >
> > ```
> >
> > "analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
> > }
> > }
> >
> > and the index creation setting:
> >
> > SETTINGS = {
> > "index": {
> > "number\_of\_shards": 1
> > }
> > ,
> > "analysis": {
> > "analyzer": {
> > "x\_analyzer": {
> > "type": "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
> > },
> > }
> >
> > So, it doesnt work.What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Tnx,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > ps: If I change the "x\_analyzer" to "default" and
> > remove "analyzer": "x\_analyzer" from the mapping, everything goes okey.
---
### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/4 "2011-11-29T07:52:14Z")
It might be the settings that you provide, I think your analyzer is not
configured correctly, try and put the analysis config under the "index"
element (same as number\_of\_shards). If it doesn't work, add a debug
statement to your custom analyzer provider, see if it gets created at all.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
> Well, the body field is not indexed by the x\_analyzer.
> Actually all the fields are indexed by the standardanalyzer.
>
> Other info:
> My es configuration, doesn't have anything configured in the
> elasticsearch.yml.
> When I'm changing the name of the x\_analyzer to default, it works.
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > What doesn't work? That would help a bit...
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a mapping and a setting, and the "body" field doesn't gets
> > > analyzed by the "x\_analyzer".
> > >
> > > MAPPING = {
> > > "posting":
> > > {
> > >
> > > ```
> > > "properties":
> > > {
> > > "country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
> > > "username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
> > > "body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
> > >
> > > ```
> > >
> > > "analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > and the index creation setting:
> > >
> > > SETTINGS = {
> > > "index": {
> > > "number\_of\_shards": 1
> > > }
> > > ,
> > > "analysis": {
> > > "analyzer": {
> > > "x\_analyzer": {
> > > "type":
> > > "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
> > > },
> > > }
> > >
> > > So, it doesnt work.What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Tnx,
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > ps: If I change the "x\_analyzer" to "default" and
> > > remove "analyzer": "x\_analyzer" from the mapping, everything goes okey.
---
### Author:  [@Sisu\_Alexandru](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sisu_Alexandru)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/5 "2011-11-29T11:36:16Z")
Tnx for the answer.
It turned out that it was my mistake. I was sending the mapping in an
incorrect way..
Here is the mistake:
MAPPING = {
"posting":
{
```
"properties":
{
"country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
"username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
"body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
```
"analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
}
}
I was doing: mapping\_res = conn.put\_mapping("posting", {'properties':
MAPPING}, ["testindex"])
The problem was that I already had this 2 elements (!posting! and
!properties!) defined in the MAPPING dict.
So, the MAPPING is now:
MAPPING = {
"country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
"username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
"body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
"analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
}
and the INDEX SETTING is as you've said:
SETTINGS = {
"index": {
"number\_of\_shards": 1,
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"x\_analyzer": {
"type": "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
},
```
}
```
}
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) wrote:
> It might be the settings that you provide, I think your analyzer is not
> configured correctly, try and put the analysis config under the "index"
> element (same as number\_of\_shards). If it doesn't work, add a debug
> statement to your custom analyzer provider, see if it gets created at all.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > Well, the body field is not indexed by the x\_analyzer.
> > Actually all the fields are indexed by the standardanalyzer.
> >
> > Other info:
> > My es configuration, doesn't have anything configured in the
> > elasticsearch.yml.
> > When I'm changing the name of the x\_analyzer to default, it works.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > What doesn't work? That would help a bit...
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Sisu Alexandru [sisu.eugen@gmail.com](mailto:sisu.eugen@gmail.com)wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a mapping and a setting, and the "body" field doesn't gets
> > > > analyzed by the "x\_analyzer".
> > > >
> > > > MAPPING = {
> > > > "posting":
> > > > {
> > > >
> > > > ```
> > > > "properties":
> > > > {
> > > > "country": {"type": "integer", "store": "yes"},
> > > > "username": {"type": "string", "store": "yes"},
> > > > "body": {"type": "string", "store": "yes", "index":
> > > >
> > > > ```
> > > >
> > > > "analyzed", "analyzer": "x\_analyzer"},
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > and the index creation setting:
> > > >
> > > > SETTINGS = {
> > > > "index": {
> > > > "number\_of\_shards": 1
> > > > }
> > > > ,
> > > > "analysis": {
> > > > "analyzer": {
> > > > "x\_analyzer": {
> > > > "type":
> > > > "com.xyz.elasticsearch.analysis.XAnalyzerProvider"
> > > > },
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > So, it doesnt work.What am I doing wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Tnx,
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > > > ps: If I change the "x\_analyzer" to "default" and
> > > > remove "analyzer": "x\_analyzer" from the mapping, everything goes okey.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-analyzer-usage/5997/6 "2017-07-06T03:47:06Z")