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Ernest Poldrige
Ernest Poldrige

Reputation: 429

Elasticsearch escape slash

I am using elasticsearch 7 and I am trying to build up a search request in this way:

{
    "query": {
        "prefix": {
            "document": {
                "value": "/home/myfolder"

            }
        }
    }
}

in order to find all folders starting with /home/myfolder ("document" element is stored like a path "/home/myfolder/file.txt". I am trying many ways but I didn't found any way to escape properly "/" character. In other links, people suggested to use "\/home/myfolder" or "/home/myfolder" but it does not work.

many thanks for any help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 104

Answers (1)

Polynomial Proton
Polynomial Proton

Reputation: 5135

Since you are trying to match with the / use .keyword as below. 

 {
        "query": {
            "prefix": {
                "document.keyword": {
                    "value": "/home/myfolder"

                }
            }
        }
    }

This is because when you dont use keyword, you are trying to match against an analyzed field and by default it removes the /.

Try running this and see how it breaks at each slash (/) to create the inverted index.

POST /_analyze
{

  "text" :"/home/myfolder/document.txt"
}

Upvotes: 2

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