elasticsearch mapping analyzer - GET not getting result - elasticsearch

Question

I am trying to create an analyzer, which replaces special character with a whitespace and convert it into uppercase. then after, if I want to search with lowercase also it should work.
Mapping Analyzer:
soundarya#soundarya-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/elasticsearch-2.4.0/bin$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/aida' -d '{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"my_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "standard",
"char_filter": [
"my_char_filter"
],
"filter": [
"uppercase"
]
}
},
"char_filter": {
"my_char_filter": {
"type": "pattern_replace",
"pattern": "(\\d+)-(?=\\d)",
"replacement": "$1 "
}
}
}
}
}
'
{"acknowledged":true}
soundarya#soundarya-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/elasticsearch-2.4.0/bin$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/aida/_analyze?pretty' -d '{
"analyzer":"my_analyzer",
"text":"My name is Soun*arya?jwnne&yuuk"
}'
It is tokenizing the words properly by replacing the special character with the whitespace. Now if I search a word from the text, it is not retrieving me any result.
soundarya#soundarya-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/elasticsearch-2.4.0/bin$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/aida/_search' -d '{
"query":{
"match":{
"text":"My"
}
}
}'
I am not getting any result out of the above GET query. Getting result like :
soundarya#soundarya-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/elasticsearch-2.4.0/bin$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/aida/_search' -d '{
"query":{
"match":{
"text":"my"
}
}
}'
{"took":5,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":0,"max_score":null,"hits":[]}}
Can anyone help me with this! Thank you!

Answer 1

You don't seem to have indexed any data after creating your index. The call to _analyze will not index anything but simply show you how the content you send to ES would be analyzed.
First, you need to create your index by specifying a mapping in which you use the analyzer you've defined:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/aida' -d '{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"my_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "standard",
"char_filter": [
"my_char_filter"
],
"filter": [
"uppercase"
]
}
},
"char_filter": {
"my_char_filter": {
"type": "pattern_replace",
"pattern": "(\\d+)-(?=\\d)",
"replacement": "$1 "
}
}
}
},
"mappings": { <--- add a mapping type...
"doc": {
"properties": {
"text": { <--- ...with a field...
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_analyzer" <--- ...using your analyzer
}
}
}
}
}'
Then you can index a new real document:
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/aida/doc' -d '{
"text": "My name is Soun*arya?jwnne&yuuk"
}'
Finally, you can search:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/aida/_search' -d '{
"query":{
"match":{
"text":"My"
}
}
}'