# Unable to search indexed-shape if excluding source
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 7, 2015, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521 "2015-12-07T11:15:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Neubauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Neubauer)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521/1 "2015-12-07T11:15:59Z")
Hi there,
I indexed shapes in an ELS 1.7.3 index that have the mapping
```
{"wof":
{"_source":
{"excludes":["shape"]},
"properties":{
"shape":{
"type":"geo_shape",
"tree":"quadtree",
"tree_levels":20}...
```
Because the shape-fields are quite big in certain cases and slow down source retrieval (they come from [https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-data](https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-data))
Now, normal searches like this are working correctly:
```
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"match_all": {}
},
"filter": {
"geo_shape": {
"shape": {
"shape": {
"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
12.96,
55.59
]
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
But something like an indexed shape in another index (mapimages/mapimage) query fails:
```
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"match_all": {}
},
"filter": {
"geo_shape": {
"l_shape": {
"indexed_shape": {
"id": "101752283",
"index": "wofs",
"type": "wof",
"path": "shape"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
with an exception:
```
ElasticsearchIllegalStateException[Shape with name [101752283] found but missing shape field];
```
That field is there but only indexed, and it should not be needed, since the query is going against the `mapimages/mapimage` documents and never needing the `wof.shape` field?
Why is the first query working but no the second?
Thanks for any help!
/peter
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521/2 "2015-12-07T11:39:29Z")
The indexed shapes feature in the `geo_shape` query works by retrieving (by using the GET document API) the specified shape document from the index (in this case `/wofs/wof/101752283`) and reading the field in the source of the document specified in the `path` (in this case the `shape` field). If you exclude the `shape` field from the source ES wont be able to access the shape definition and therefore won't be able to execute the query.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Neubauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Neubauer)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521/3 "2015-12-07T12:30:15Z")
Ahh,
ok - I thought there would be some reuse of the already indexed shape more than just getting the source.
Thanks a lot for the fast answer @colings86 !
/peter
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-search-indexed-shape-if-excluding-source/36521/4 "2017-07-05T23:33:02Z")