# Search Analyzer Not Working **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 5, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-analyzer-not-working/12272 "2013-06-05T04:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tarang\_dawer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@tarang\_dawer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarang_dawer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-analyzer-not-working/12272/1 "2013-06-05T04:30:45Z")
Hi I am trying to search on URL type field , created a custom analyzer with tokenizer as uax\_url\_email , and indexedit with the same. i have explicitly specified the "index\_analyzer" and "search\_analyzer" fields while creating the mapping, as the same custom analyzer. As per my understanding , the uax\_url\_email tokenizer , recognizes the string as an Email or an URL , but does not breaks it further. So , since the whole string is preserved as a single token , wild card Queries should work on it. They do work in some cases like when i search for _[www.englishdictionary.fr](http://www.englishdictionary.fr)_ but fail when i do a search for _[www.englishdictionary.fr/hann](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann)_ and an Parsing Exception is thrown . Since i have explicitly specified the "search\_analyzer" as the custom analyzer , my query\_string is supposed to be analyzed in the way defined in the analyzer specified., i.e any url will not be tokenized by being broken into smaller components. I also checked with the curl Command , to check the fuctioning of the custom analyzer, and as expected , it's showing me the complete URL as a single token. but while searching throgh java API, a parsing exception is being thrown. I also tried setting the analyzer as "uax\_url\_email1" (custom analyzer's name) with the query , and also tried setting analyzeWildcard = false , but to no avail , still the query fails. Below is the link for the Gist [https://gist.github.com/F-Torres/5711570](https://gist.github.com/F-Torres/5711570) 1. Please also suggest how to search for wildcards in the URL , if it already contains wildcard characters like ? and \* , ( while keeping the URL field not analyzed / Keyword Analyzer / Custom Analyzer with uax\_url\_email tokenizer ) Exception being thrown : - org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: Failed to execute phase [dfs], total failure; shardFailures {[27tA5ursT6CQbjmx1FFSsQ][html][1]: SearchParseException[[html][1]: from[-1],size[10000]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":10000,"query":{"query\_string":{"query":"\* [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*","fields":["urls"],"analyzer":"uax\_url\_email1"}},"fields":"](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*%22,%22fields%22:%5B%22urls%22%5D,%22analyzer%22:%22uax_url_email1%22%7D%7D,%22fields%22:%22)_"}]]]; nested: QueryParsingException[[html] Failed to parse query [_ [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*)]]; nested: ParseException[Cannot parse '\* [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*)': Lexical error at line 1, column 32. Encountered: after : "/hann\*"]; nested: TokenMgrError[Lexical error at line 1, column 32. Encountered: after : "/hann\*"]; }{[27tA5ursT6CQbjmx1FFSsQ][html][3]: SearchParseException[[html][3]: from[-1],size[10000]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":10000,"query":{"query\_string":{"query":"\* [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*","fields":["urls"],"analyzer":"uax\_url\_email1"}},"fields":"](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*%22,%22fields%22:%5B%22urls%22%5D,%22analyzer%22:%22uax_url_email1%22%7D%7D,%22fields%22:%22)_"}]]]; nested: QueryParsingException[[html] Failed to parse query [_ [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*)]]; nested: ParseException[Cannot parse '\* [www.englishdictionary.fr/hann\*](http://www.englishdictionary.fr/hann*)': Lexical error at line 1, column 32. Encountered: after : "/hann\*"]; nested: TokenMgrError[Lexical error at line 1, column 32. Encountered: after : "/hann\*"]; } at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction.onFirstPhaseResult(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:260) at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$3.onFailure(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:213) at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction.sendExecuteDfs(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:110) at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchDfsQueryThenFetchAction$AsyncAction.sendExecuteFirstPhase(TransportSearchDfsQueryThenFetchAction.java:86) at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction.performFirstPhase(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:205) at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction.performFirstPhase(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:192) at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$2.run(TransportSearchTypeAction.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Please Help . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. 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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-analyzer-not-working/12272/2 "2017-07-06T02:32:54Z")