Searching on fields of a nested object on elasticsearch - spring

Question

I have this mapping on ES 1.7.3:
{
"customer": {
"aliases": {},
"mappings": {
"customer": {
"properties": {
"addresses": {
"type": "nested",
"include_in_parent": true,
"properties": {
"address1": {
"type": "string"
},
"address2": {
"type": "string"
},
"address3": {
"type": "string"
},
"country": {
"type": "string"
},
"latitude": {
"type": "double",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"longitude": {
"type": "double",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"postcode": {
"type": "string"
},
"state": {
"type": "string"
},
"town": {
"type": "string"
},
"unit": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"companyNumber": {
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "string"
},
"timeCreated": {
"type": "date",
"format": "dateOptionalTime"
},
"timeUpdated": {
"type": "date",
"format": "dateOptionalTime"
}
}
}
},
"settings": {
"index": {
"refresh_interval": "1s",
"number_of_shards": "5",
"creation_date": "1472372294516",
"store": {
"type": "fs"
},
"uuid": "RxJdXvPWSXGpKz8pdcF91Q",
"version": {
"created": "1050299"
},
"number_of_replicas": "1"
}
},
"warmers": {}
}
}
The spring application generates this query:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": {
"query_string": {
"query": "(addresses.\\*:sample* AND NOT status:ARCHIVED)",
"fields": [
"type",
"name",
"companyNumber",
"status",
"addresses.unit",
"addresses.address1",
"addresses.address2",
"addresses.address3",
"addresses.town",
"addresses.state",
"addresses.postcode",
"addresses.country"
],
"default_operator": "or",
"analyze_wildcard": true
}
}
}
}
}
on which "addresses.*:sample*" is the only input.
"query": "(sample* AND NOT status:ARCHIVED)"
Code above works but searches all fields of the customer object.
Since I want to search only on address fields I used the "addresses.*"
Query works only if the fields of the address object are of String type and before I added longitude and latitude fields of double type on address object. Now the error occurs because of these two new fields.
Error:
Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": {
"query_string": {
"query": "(addresses.\\*:sample* AND NOT status:ARCHIVED)",
"fields": [
"type",
"name",
"companyNumber","country",
"state",
"status",
"addresses.unit",
"addresses.address1",
"addresses.address2",
"addresses.address3",
"addresses.town",
"addresses.state",
"addresses.postcode",
"addresses.country",
],
"default_operator": "or",
"analyze_wildcard": true
}
}
}
}
}
]]
NumberFormatException[For input string: "sample"
Is there a way to search "String" fields within a nested object using addresses.* only?

Answer 1

The solution was to add "lenient": true. As per the documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html
lenient - If set to true will cause format based failures (like providing text to a numeric field) to be ignored.