diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 26c3577be78..b712aa2996d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ Usage
 Using the attachment type is simple, in your mapping JSON, simply set a certain JSON element as attachment, for example:
 
 ```javascript
+PUT /test
 PUT /test/person/_mapping
 {
     "person" : {
@@ -116,8 +117,8 @@ PUT /test/person/1
 }
 ```
 
-The `attachment` type not only indexes the content of the doc, but also automatically adds meta data on the attachment
-as well (when available).
+The `attachment` type not only indexes the content of the doc in `content` sub field, but also automatically adds meta 
+data on the attachment as well (when available).
 
 The metadata supported are:
 
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ PUT /test/person/_mapping
             "file" : {
                 "type" : "attachment",
                 "fields" : {
-                    "file" : {"index" : "no"},
+                    "content" : {"index" : "no"},
                     "title" : {"store" : "yes"},
                     "date" : {"store" : "yes"},
                     "author" : {"analyzer" : "myAnalyzer"},
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ PUT /test/person/_mapping
 }
 ```
 
-In the above example, the actual content indexed is mapped under `fields` name `file`, and we decide not to index it, so
+In the above example, the actual content indexed is mapped under `fields` name `content`, and we decide not to index it, so
 it will only be available in the `_all` field. The other fields map to their respective metadata names, but there is no
 need to specify the `type` (like `string` or `date`) since it is already known.
 
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ PUT /test/person/_mapping
       "file": {
         "type": "attachment",
         "fields": {
-          "file": {
+          "content": {
             "type": "string",
             "copy_to": "copy"
           }
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ PUT /test/person/_mapping
       "file": {
         "type": "attachment",
         "fields": {
-          "file": {
+          "content": {
             "type": "string",
             "term_vector":"with_positions_offsets",
             "store": true
@@ -341,12 +342,12 @@ GET /test/person/_search
   "fields": [],
   "query": {
     "match": {
-      "file": "king queen"
+      "file.content": "king queen"
     }
   },
   "highlight": {
     "fields": {
-      "file": {
+      "file.content": {
       }
     }
   }
@@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ It gives back:
             "_id": "1",
             "_score": 0.13561106,
             "highlight": {
-               "file": [
+               "file.content": [
                   "\"God Save the <em>Queen</em>\" (alternatively \"God Save the <em>King</em>\"\n"
                ]
             }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/SimpleAttachmentMapperTests.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/SimpleAttachmentMapperTests.java
index be38c615036..8a5a925b038 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/SimpleAttachmentMapperTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/SimpleAttachmentMapperTests.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapperParser;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ParseContext;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.attachment.AttachmentMapper;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.attachment.test.MapperTestUtils;
-import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory.jsonBuilder;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.StreamsUtils.copyToBytesFromClasspath;
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
  */
 public class SimpleAttachmentMapperTests extends AttachmentUnitTestCase {
 
-    @Test
     public void testSimpleMappings() throws Exception {
         DocumentMapperParser mapperParser = MapperTestUtils.newMapperParser(createTempDir());
         mapperParser.putTypeParser(AttachmentMapper.CONTENT_TYPE, new AttachmentMapper.TypeParser());
@@ -83,4 +81,36 @@ public class SimpleAttachmentMapperTests extends AttachmentUnitTestCase {
         ParseContext.Document doc = docMapper.parse("person", "person", "1", json).rootDoc();
         assertThat(doc.get("file"), containsString("This document tests the ability of Apache Tika to extract content"));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * test for https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/179
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    public void testSimpleMappingsWithAllFields() throws Exception {
+        DocumentMapperParser mapperParser = MapperTestUtils.newMapperParser(createTempDir());
+        mapperParser.putTypeParser(AttachmentMapper.CONTENT_TYPE, new AttachmentMapper.TypeParser());
+        String mapping = copyToStringFromClasspath("/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/simple/test-mapping-all-fields.json");
+        DocumentMapper docMapper = mapperParser.parse(mapping);
+        byte[] html = copyToBytesFromClasspath("/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/sample-files/testXHTML.html");
+
+        BytesReference json = jsonBuilder().startObject().field("file", html).endObject().bytes();
+        ParseContext.Document doc = docMapper.parse("person", "person", "1", json).rootDoc();
+
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.content_type").fieldType().names().indexName()), startsWith("application/xhtml+xml"));
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.title").fieldType().names().indexName()), equalTo("XHTML test document"));
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.content").fieldType().names().indexName()), containsString("This document tests the ability of Apache Tika to extract content"));
+
+        // re-parse it
+        String builtMapping = docMapper.mappingSource().string();
+        docMapper = mapperParser.parse(builtMapping);
+
+        json = jsonBuilder().startObject().field("file", html).endObject().bytes();
+
+        doc = docMapper.parse("person", "person", "1", json).rootDoc();
+
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.content_type").fieldType().names().indexName()), startsWith("application/xhtml+xml"));
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.title").fieldType().names().indexName()), equalTo("XHTML test document"));
+        assertThat(doc.get(docMapper.mappers().getMapper("file.content").fieldType().names().indexName()), containsString("This document tests the ability of Apache Tika to extract content"));
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/simple/test-mapping-all-fields.json b/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/simple/test-mapping-all-fields.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ea83b98ceec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/unit/simple/test-mapping-all-fields.json
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+    "person":{
+        "properties":{
+            "file":{
+                "type":"attachment",
+                "fields" : {
+                    "content" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "title" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "date" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "author" : {"analyzer" : "standard"},
+                    "keywords" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "content_type" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "content_length" : {"store" : "yes"},
+                    "language" : {"store" : "yes"}
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}