For autocompletion feature What is recommended type of the field? keyword or text

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String type has been removed and index time search as you type example is using "string" type. I did that by replacing it with text but i'm not getting expected results yet. May be i should use "keyword" type.

Any recommendation is appreciable.

Thanks

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Oh, i think custom analyser can not be defined on field of type "keyword" during mapping creation. So i'm left with type "text".

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From Elasticsearch 5.2.0+, keyword field data type supports a normalizer, which is essentially an analysis chain that produces only a single token.

There's also the completion field data type used by completion suggesters

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@forloop thanks to update here. It has worked the way you suggested. BTW, completion suggesters are really cool.