# Ignore mapping Exceptions at searching time
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302 "2018-12-04T07:22:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@alizadehei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alizadehei)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302/1 "2018-12-04T07:22:08Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@s1monw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/s1monw)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302/2 "2018-12-07T15:33:33Z")
some queries support `lenient: true`, what queries are you using?
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### Author:  [@alizadehei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alizadehei)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302/3 "2018-12-09T06:18:21Z")
Match query, Range Query, Nested Query , ..
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### Author:  [@s1monw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/s1monw)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302/4 "2018-12-09T21:31:24Z")
for at least the match query you can set the `lenient` [param](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#query-dsl-match-query-boolean).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-mapping-exceptions-at-searching-time/159302/5 "2019-01-06T21:31:26Z")
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