# How Percolate can perform, qeries on not analyzed index?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 7, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098 "2017-10-07T03:08:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sarath\_r\_nair](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sarath_r_nair)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098/1 "2017-10-07T03:08:45Z")
So , after so much of digging around , I came to ask it over here . Let me start with a simple use case .
```
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my-index?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"mappings": {
"doctype": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "text" }
}
},
"queries": {
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "percolator"
}
}
}
}
}
'
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my-index/queries/2?refresh&pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query" : {
"match_phrase" : {
"message" : "pub/sub"
}
}
}
'
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my-index/queries/1?refresh&pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query" : {
"match_phrase" : {
"message" : "x++"
}
}
}
'
```
Now my problem is if I execute
```
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/my-index/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query" : {
"percolate" : {
"field" : "query",
"document_type" : "doctype",
"document" : {
"message" : "A new bonsai pub sub tree in the office x"
}
}
}
}
'
```
I will get two matched . one for "pub" and other for "x" , as pub'/sub and x++ .. I know , its because of analyzer . But , even in the mapping field if I change to
```
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my-index?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"mappings": {
"doctype": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "string" ,
"index": "not_analyzed" }
}
},
"queries": {
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "percolator"
}
}
}
}
}
'
```
then the "message" : "A new bonsai pub sub tree in the office x" will give zero match , because , it passes this entire text / doc as not\_analyzed .
In simple any way to solve this issue ? I only want those phrase . non phrase queries to be matched , which are indexed without removing any special charaxcters like / , + etc ?
---
### Author:  [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098/2 "2017-10-07T04:42:58Z")
By default, the `text` field uses the `standard` analyzer. If you use the `whitespace` analyzer instead then your input will simply be split on whitespaces (but the token will not be be lowercased)
```
"mappings": {
"doctype": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "whitespace"
}
}
},
```
If you also want the tokens to be lowercased, then you need to create a custom analyzer
```
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my-index?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"my_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "whitespace",
"filter": [
"lowercase"
]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"doctype": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "my_analyzer"
}
}
},
"queries": {
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "percolator"
}
}
}
}
}'
```
Then this will only match the `pub/sub` query
```
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/my-index/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query" : {
"percolate" : {
"field" : "query",
"document_type" : "doctype",
"document" : {
"message" : "A new bonsai pub/sub tree in the office x"
}
}
}
}
'
```
---
### Author:  [@sarath\_r\_nair](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sarath_r_nair)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098/3 "2017-10-07T10:22:47Z")
Thank you so much vaal crettaz . Amazing and very precise explanation.
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### Author:  [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098/4 "2017-10-07T11:47:46Z")
Awesome, glad it helped 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-percolate-can-perform-qeries-on-not-analyzed-index/103098/5 "2017-11-04T11:48:27Z")
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