# Type in Percolator query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081 "2011-12-06T19:01:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ruflin\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ruflin\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin_2)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081/1 "2011-12-06T19:01:57Z")

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I'm currently implementing percolator for Elastica. I looked at the  
examples and everythings works as expected.

[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/percolate.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/percolate.html)

But I'm somehow curious about the "type" param for example in the third  
example (matching queries). The type is named "type1". As far as I  
understand, it could be anything else like "abcde" and would return the  
same result. Or if not, what is the type for?

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**Author:** ![Ksaveras\_Sakys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ksaveras_sakys/32/3047_2.png) [@Ksaveras\_Sakys](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ksaveras_Sakys)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081/2 "2011-12-09T17:43:41Z")

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Maybe You are right,

While reading documentation I realized that type1 is concrete document type  
for percolate query (same as in searching method).

I haven't tested. If results will be different - I'll inform You.

BR  
K

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**Author:** ![ruflin\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ruflin\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin_2)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081/3 "2011-12-10T11:11:13Z")

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Ok, let me know if you need some example code to reproduce it.

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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, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/type-in-percolator-query/6081/4 "2017-07-06T03:45:48Z")

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