Match fails elasticsearch - elasticsearch

Question

I have the following index in which I index mail addresses.
PUT _myindex
{
"settings" : {
"analysis" : {
"filter" : {
"email" : {
"type" : "pattern_capture",
"preserve_original" : true,
"patterns" : [
"^(.*?)#",
"(\\w+(?=.*#))"]
}
},
"analyzer" : {
"email" : {
"tokenizer" : "uax_url_email",
"filter" : [ "lowercase","email", "unique" ]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"emails": {
"properties": {
"email": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "email"
}
}
}
}
My e-mail in the following form "example.elastic#yahoo.com". When i index them they get analysed like example.elastic#yahoo.com, example.elastic, elastic, example.
When i run a match
GET _myindex/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"email": "example.elastic#yahoo.com"
}
}
}
or using as a query string example, elastic, Elastic it works and retrieves results. But the problem is when I have "example.elastic.blabla#yahoo.com", it also returns the same results. What can be the problem?

Answer 1

Using term query instead of match query will solve this.
Reason is, The match query will apply analyzer to the search term and will therefore match what is stored in the index. The term query does not apply any analyzers to the search term, so will only look for that exact term in the index.
Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23151332/6546289
GET _myindex/_search
{
"query": {
"term": {
"email": "example.elastic#yahoo.com"
}
}
}