title: Synonym analyzer not working
body: <p>Here are my settings:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "countries": {
  "aliases": {},
  "mappings": {
    "country": {
      "properties": {
        "countryName": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "creation_date": "1472140045116",
      "analysis": {
        "filter": {
          "synonym": {
            "ignore_case": "true",
            "type": "synonym",
            "synonyms_path": "synonym.txt"
          }
        },
        "analyzer": {
          "synonym": {
            "filter": [
              "synonym"
            ],
            "tokenizer": "whitespace"
          }
        }
      },
      "number_of_shards": "5",
      "number_of_replicas": "1",
      "uuid": "7-fKyD9aR2eG3BwUNdadXA",
      "version": {
        "created": "2030599"
      }
    }
  },
  "warmers": {}
  }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My <code>synonym.txt</code> file is in the <code>config</code> folder inside the main <code>elasticsearch</code> folder.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my query:</p>
  
  <pre><code>query: {
      query_string: {
          fields: ["countryName"],
          default_operator: "AND",
          query: searchInput,
          analyzer: "synonym"
          }
       }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The words in <code>synonym.txt</code> are: <strong>us, u.s., united states</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>So this doesn't work. What's interesting is that search works as normal, <em>except</em> for when I enter any of the words in the <code>synonym.txt</code> file. So for example, when I usually type in <strong>us</strong> into the search, I would get results. With this analyzer, <strong>us</strong> doesn't give me anything.</p>
  
  <p>I've done <code>close</code> and <code>open</code> to my ES server, and still it doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>An example of a <code>document</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
      "_index": "countries",
      "_type": "country",
      "_id": "57aabeb80057405968de152b",
      "_score": 1,
      "_source": {
        "countryName": "United States"
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Example of <code>searchInput</code> (this is coming from the front-end):</p>
  
  <p><code>united states</code></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT #2</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>Here is my updated index config file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "countries": {
      "aliases": {},
      "mappings": {},
      "settings": {
          "index": {
              "number_of_shards": "5",
              "creation_date": "1472219634083",
              "analysis": {
                  "filter": {
                      "synonym": {
                          "ignore_case": "true",
                          "type": "synonym",
                          "synonyms_path": "synonym.txt"
                      }
                  },
                  "analyzer": {
                      "synonym": {
                          "filter": [
                              "synonym"
                          ],
                          "tokenizer": "whitespace"
                      }
                  }
              },
              "country": {
                  "properties": {
                      "countryName": {
                          "type": "string",
                          "analyzer": "synonym"
                      },
                      "number_of_replicas": "1",
                      "uuid": "50ZwpIVFTqeD_rJxlmd59Q",
                      "version": {
                          "created": "2030599"
                      }
                  }
              },
              "warmers": {}
          }
      }
  }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try adding documents, and doing a search on said documents, the <code>synonym</code> analyzer does not work for me.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT #3</strong></p>
  
  <p>Here are 2 documents in the index:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "took": 3,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
      "total": 5,
      "successful": 5,
      "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
      "total": 2,
      "max_score": 1,
      "hits": [{
          "_index": "stocks",
          "_type": "stock",
          "_id": "2",
          "_score": 1,
          "_source": {
              "countryName": "United States"
          }
      }, {
          "_index": "stocks",
          "_type": "stock",
          "_id": "1",
          "_score": 1,
          "_source": {
              "countryName": "Canada"
          }
      }]
  }
  }
  </code></pre>