exact match query in elasticsearch - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to run an exact match query in ES
in MYSQL my query would be:
SELECT * WHERE `content_state`='active' AND `author`='bob' AND `title` != 'Beer';
I looked at the ES docs here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_finding_exact_values.html
and came up with this:
{
"from" : '.$offset.', "size" : '.$limit.',
"filter": {
"and": [
{
"and": [
{
"term": {
"content_state": "active"
}
},
{
"term": {
"author": "bob"
}
},
{
"not": {
"filter": {
"term": {
"title": "Beer"
}
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
}
but my results are still coming back with the title = Beer, it doesn't seem to be excluding the titles that = Beer.
did I do something wrong?
I'm pretty new to ES

Answer 1

I figured it out, I used this instead...
{
"from" : '.$offset.', "size" : '.$limit.',
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"query_string": {
"default_field": "content_state",
"query": "active"
}
},
{
"query_string": {
"default_field": "author",
"query": "bob"
}
}
],
"must_not": [
{
"query_string": {
"default_field": "title",
"query": "Beer"
}
}
]
}
}
}

Answer 2

Query String Query is a pretty good concept to handle various relationship between search criteria. Have a quick look into Query string query syntax to understand in detail about this concept
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "(content_state:active AND author:bob) AND NOT (title:Beer)"
}
}
}

Answer 3

Filters are supposed to work on exact values, if you had defined your mapping in a manner where title was a non-analyzed field, your previous attempt ( with filters) would have worked as well.
{
"mappings": {
"test": {
"_all": {
"enabled": false
},
"properties": {
"content_state": {
"type": "string"
},
"author": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
}
}
}
}
}