config

index:
    analysis:
        analyzer:
            string_lowercase:
                tokenizer: keyword
                filter: lowercase

field query

# does not work
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "field":{
            "field1":{
                "query":"matt weber"
            }
        }
    }
}'

# does not work
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "field":{
            "field1":{
                "query":"matt weber",
                "analyzer":"string_lowercase"
            }
        }
    }
}'

mapping

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test' -d '{
    "mappings" : {
        "type1" : {
            "properties" : {
                "field1" : {
                    "type" : "string",
                    "analyzer" : "string_lowercase"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}'

query string query

# does not work
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "query_string":{
            "query":"matt weber",
            "fields":["field1"]
        }
    }
}'

# does not work
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "query_string":{
            "query":"matt weber",
            "fields":["field1"],
            "analyzer":"string_lowercase"
        }
    }
}'

test document

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/1' -d '{"field1":"Matt Weber"}'

text query

# works with and without specifying the analyzer
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "text":{
            "field1":{
                "query":"matt weber"
            }
        }
    }
}'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/type1/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
    "query":{
        "query_string":{
            "query":"\"matt weber\"",
            "fields":["field1"]
        }
    }
}'