Elasticsearch: Define custom analysers and common field mappings in index template

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/sh

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/index_1 -d'
{
  settings: {
    number_of_shards: 1,
    number_of_replicas: 0
  },
  mappings: {
    _default_ : {
      properties: {
        dcp_type : {type : "string", index : "not_analyzed", include_in_all : false}
      }
    },
    other_type : {
      properties : {
        dcp_type : {type : "string", index : "not_analyzed", include_in_all : false}
      }
    }
  }
}'

# note we are indexing into 'mytype' thus 'other_type' mapping does not apply, only '_default_' mapping does

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/index_1/mytype/' -d '{
    dcp_type : "trying out Elastic Search"
}'

curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/_search' -d '
{
  query : {
    query_string : {
      default_field : "dcp_type",
      query : "\"trying out Elastic Search\""
    }
  }
}'

curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/_search' -d '
{
  query : {
    query_string : {
      query : "dcp_type:\"trying out Elastic Search\""
    }
  }
}'

curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/_search' -d '
{
  query : {
    term : {
      dcp_type : "trying out Elastic Search"
    }
  }
}'