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kamil
kamil

Reputation: 3522

elastich search strange behaviour, looking for prefix of whole phrase but got prefix for every word

I my index lets say I have field field named "full_name". I'm doing following query:

{
"query":{
    "bool":{
        "must":[
            {
                "wildcard":{
                    "full_name":"ab*"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
},
"size":50
}

And it return values that fits exactly, for example:

"full_name" : "abrakadabra"

But also I receive things like this:

"full_name" : "kad abra"

Wildacrd "ab*" fits word "abra" and therefore I have "full_name" : "kad abra" . How can I avoid it, and search only for first word prefix?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 199

Answers (1)

imotov
imotov

Reputation: 30163

Standard analyzer, which is applied by default to strings, generates a term for each word. So, "kad abra" is indexed as two terms "kad" and "abra", and your query finds the second term. If you want to search full_name always as a phrase, you should index it with custom analyzer with keyword tokenizer and lowercase filter. Alternatively, you can just index this field as not_analyzed if case is meaningful in your terms.

Upvotes: 3

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