# Getting “nested query: nested clause at pos 1: invalid search term, only stopwords provided. Stopwords can be configured in class.invertedIndexConfig.stopwords” when conditional filter has an input of single or double quotes

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**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/getting-nested-query-nested-clause-at-pos-1-invalid-search-term-only-stopwords-provided-stopwords-can-be-configured-in-class-invertedindexconfig-stopwords-when-conditional-filter-has-an-input-of-single-or-double-quotes/3271 "2024-08-06T06:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![junbetterway](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/junbetterway/32/174_2.png) [@junbetterway](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/junbetterway)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/getting-nested-query-nested-clause-at-pos-1-invalid-search-term-only-stopwords-provided-stopwords-can-be-configured-in-class-invertedindexconfig-stopwords-when-conditional-filter-has-an-input-of-single-or-double-quotes/3271/1 "2024-08-06T06:33:47Z")

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### Description

_Getting **“nested query: nested clause at pos 1: invalid search term, only stopwords provided. Stopwords can be configured in class.invertedIndexConfig.stopwords”** when conditional filter has an input of single or double quotes_

### Server Setup Information

- Weaviate Server Version: **1.23.7**
- Deployment Method: **docker**
- Multi Node? Number of Running Nodes: 1
- Client Language and Version:
- Multitenancy?: No

### Any additional Information

Basically, we have this one free text input → “skills” which uses `containsAny` operator filter and since its free text, users can input whatever they can, however we noticed that if users tried to enter single (`'`) or double quotes (`"`) then the vector database gives us the error mentioned above.

We’re seeing one quick solution is to add the single and double quotes to the `stopwords` → `additions`, however, can you give me a sample REST/CURL command to achieve this where I just need to modify `invertedIndexConfig` at runtime without the need to recreate the collection, else if not possible, then do we have a better solution for it?

Please see below sample schema snippet of class **Profile** :

```auto
      "class": "Profile",
      "vectorizer": "text2vec-transformers",
      "invertedIndexConfig": {
        "indexNullState": true,
        "indexTimestamps": true,
        "stopwords": {
          "preset": "en",
          "additions": null,
          "removals": ["it"]
        }
      },
      "properties": [
        ...
        ... REMOVED FOR BREVITY
          {
            "name": "skills",
            "description": "Profile tags to showcase their skills, tech tools, etc.",
            "dataType": [
              "text[]"
            ],
            "moduleConfig": {
              "text2vec-transformers": {
                "skip": false,
                "vectorizePropertyName": false
              }
            }
          }
        },

```

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/getting-nested-query-nested-clause-at-pos-1-invalid-search-term-only-stopwords-provided-stopwords-can-be-configured-in-class-invertedindexconfig-stopwords-when-conditional-filter-has-an-input-of-single-or-double-quotes/3271/2 "2024-08-07T17:26:23Z")

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hi @junbetterway !! Long time no see 🙂

I was not able to reproduce this on 1.26.1 nor on 1.23.7

Please, check if my code is what you are doing:

```python
client.collections.delete("Test")
collection = client.collections.create(
    "Test",
    vectorizer_config=wvc.config.Configure.Vectorizer.none(),
    properties=[
        wvc.config.Property(
            name="name", data_type=wvc.config.DataType.TEXT
        ),        
        wvc.config.Property(
            name="skills", data_type=wvc.config.DataType.TEXT_ARRAY
        ),
    ],
    inverted_index_config=wvc.config.Configure.inverted_index(
        stopwords_removals=["it"],
        stopwords_preset=wvc.config.StopwordsPreset.EN
    )
)
collection.data.insert({"name": "skill set 1", "skills": ["account", "hr", "sales"]})
collection.data.insert({"name": "skill set 2", "skills": ["engineering", "sales", "finance"]})
collection.data.insert({"name": "skill set 3", "skills": ["it", "training", "other"]})
collection.data.insert({"name": "skill set 3", "skills": ["'it'", "training", "other"]})

```

Now I can search:

```python
for o in collection.query.fetch_objects(
    filters=wvc.query.Filter.by_property("skills").contains_any(["it"])
).objects:
    print(o.properties)

```

those are the versions used:

```python
print(weaviate. __version__ , "/", client.get_meta().get("version"))
# client version / server version
>>> 4.7.1 / 1.26.1

```

Let me know what we can do in this code to try replicating this issue.

THanks!

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**Author:** ![junbetterway](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/junbetterway/32/174_2.png) [@junbetterway](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/junbetterway)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/getting-nested-query-nested-clause-at-pos-1-invalid-search-term-only-stopwords-provided-stopwords-can-be-configured-in-class-invertedindexconfig-stopwords-when-conditional-filter-has-an-input-of-single-or-double-quotes/3271/3 "2024-08-08T05:04:10Z")

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Yeah long time no post indeed! 😃

Anyways, yes looks like it gonna work but what if you try to search single or double quotes? (Not a python dev so not sure how you will search for a single quote in below code)

```auto
for o in collection.query.fetch_objects(
    filters=wvc.query.Filter.by_property("skills").contains_any([" \' "])
).objects:
    print(o.properties)

```