Ignore mapping Exceptions at searching time

[alizadehei (Ali Zadedehbalaei)]

hi
Elasticsearch by default throws an exception if searching data for a field which does not fit the existing type. For example, if a field has been created as number type, index a document with a string value for that field causes an error.
i know that Malformed fields are silently ignored at indexing time when ignore_malformed is turned on. but i want to ignore mapping Exceptions at searching time, Is this possible?

[s1monw (Simon Willnauer)]

some queries support lenient: true, what queries are you using?

[alizadehei (Ali Zadedehbalaei)]

Match query, Range Query, Nested Query , ..

[s1monw (Simon Willnauer)]

for at least the match query you can set the lenient param.