# Store and index "no" not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589 "2016-01-07T09:56:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Gathmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Gathmann)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/1 "2016-01-07T09:56:19Z")
Here comes another offspring to this question: [Exclude complete path from indexing and \_source](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-complete-path-from-indexing-and--source/37854/11)
What I want to achieve here is to
-exclude a field called "ignoreme" from the \_source AND
-exclude the very same field from the index itself
So in the following example, I start with the following index creation:
```
curl -XPOST 'http://192.168.56.102:9200/test' -d '{"mappings":
{"my_type":{"_all":{"enabled":false},
"_source":{"excludes":["ignoreme"]},
"dynamic_templates":[{"skip":{"match":"ignoreme","mapping":{"type":"string","store":"no","index":"no"}}}]}}}'
```
The index then looks like this:
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test?pretty
{
"test" : {
"aliases" : { },
"mappings" : {
"my_type" : {
"_all" : {
"enabled" : false
},
"_source" : {
"excludes" : ["ignoreme"]
},
"dynamic_templates" : [ {
"skip" : {
"mapping" : {
"index" : "no",
"store" : "no",
"type" : "string"
},
"match" : "ignoreme"
}
} ]
}
},....
```
Next, I post this document:
```
curl -XPOST 'http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/my_type/1' -d '{"title":"Something","ignoreme":"I should not be here"}'
```
I now expect that "ignoreme" should not be searchable at all, but when I run a query for the word "here" in "ignoreme", I still get a result:
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/my_type/_search?pretty&q=ignoreme:here
[1] 3463
ben@ben-ubuntu14:~$ {
"took" : 7,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "test",
"_type" : "my_type",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source":{"title":"Something"}
} ]
}
}
```
So what do I have to do to TRULY and COMPLETELY exclude "ignoreme"?
In addition, I am wondering whether this type of mapping is also possible for arrays and/or object types.
E.g. if I have an array of strings like this:
"messages":["Help, I need someboy","It's been a hard days night","Norwegian Wood"]
is there a way to exclude the complete array from being indexed and added to the \_source?
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/2 "2016-01-08T09:31:07Z")
Can you print your mapping?
```
GET test/my_type/_mapping
```
---
### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Gathmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Gathmann)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/3 "2016-01-08T13:41:36Z")
Sure, here it is:
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/_mapping/my_type?pretty
{
"test" : {
"mappings" : {
"my_type" : {
"_all" : {
"enabled" : false
},
"_source" : {
"excludes" : ["ignoreme"]
},
"dynamic_templates" : [ {
"skip" : {
"mapping" : {
"index" : "no",
"store" : "no",
"type" : "string"
},
"match" : "ignoreme"
}
} ],
"properties" : {
"ignoreme" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
I.e. this is what the mappings look like after I have POSTed my test document.
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/4 "2016-01-08T14:17:10Z")
As you can see, your template has not been applied.
May be you add this mapping on an existing index?
This script works well:
```auto
DELETE index
PUT index
{
"mappings": {
"type": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"skip": {
"match": "ignoreme",
"mapping": {
"type": "string",
"index": "no",
"store": "no"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
PUT index/type/1
{
"ignoreme": "foo"
}
GET index/type/_mapping
```
---
### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Gathmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Gathmann)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/5 "2016-01-08T15:33:25Z")
Hi David,
If you look at my example, this is basically what I have done.
I have now tested some more and left out this part from the initial POST
```
"_all" : {
"enabled" : false
},
"_source" : {
"excludes" : ["ignoreme"]
},
```
After that, the mapping looks better:
```
{
"test" : {
"mappings" : {
"my_type" : {
"dynamic_templates" : [ {
"skip" : {
"mapping" : {
"index" : "no",
"store" : "no",
"type" : "string"
},
"match" : "ignoreme"
}
} ],
"properties" : {
"ignoreme" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "no"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
However, the query:
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/my_type/_search?pretty&q=ignoreme:here
```
still returns the document. This puzzles me.
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/6 "2016-01-08T16:07:33Z")
Remove the pretty in case you are doing something wrong with the command line. I suspect your score is 1 here so no criteria has been applied.
This works well for me:
```auto
DELETE index
PUT index
{
"mappings": {
"type": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"skip": {
"match": "ignoreme",
"mapping": {
"type": "string",
"index": "no",
"store": "no"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
PUT index/type/1
{
"ignoreme": "foo"
}
GET index/type/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"ignoreme": "foo"
}
}
}
GET index/type/_search?q=ignoreme:foo
```
---
### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Gathmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Gathmann)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/7 "2016-01-08T19:54:38Z")
Yes, that did it.
So
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/my_type/_search?q=ignoreme:here
```
returns the correct (empty) result, while
```
curl -XGET http://192.168.56.102:9200/test/my_type/_search?pretty&q=ignoreme:here
```
does not.
I wonder if there is still a way to add the "pretty" param to this search URL. All the examples in the documentation are pretty-printed, so it should be possible I guess?
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/8 "2016-01-08T20:05:56Z")
Wrap the URL in ""
---
### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Gathmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Gathmann)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/9 "2016-01-08T20:26:39Z")
🙂
Cheers!
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-index-no-not-working/38589/10 "2017-07-05T23:25:51Z")