# IndexSettings SettingsSimilarity api spec wrong?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexsettings-settingssimilarity-api-spec-wrong/332673>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [May 5, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexsettings-settingssimilarity-api-spec-wrong/332673 "2023-05-05T17:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![selckin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@selckin1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/selckin1)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexsettings-settingssimilarity-api-spec-wrong/332673/1 "2023-05-05T17:32:11Z")

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In the documentation [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-similarity.html#configuration) you can specify an id/name for the similarity such as 'my\_similarity'

But this seems to not be possible in the [java api client](https://artifacts.elastic.co/javadoc/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch-java/8.7.1/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/indices/IndexSettings.Builder.html#similarity(co.elastic.clients.elasticsearch.indices.SettingsSimilarity)) or in the [api spec](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/blob/main/specification/indices/_types/IndexSettings.ts#L170)

Am i missing something, or is the api wrong?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexsettings-settingssimilarity-api-spec-wrong/332673/2 "2023-06-02T17:32:45Z")

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