Elastic Search fulltext search query and filters - elasticsearch

Question

I wanna perform a full-text search, but I also wanna use one or many possible filters. The simplified structure of my document, when searching with /things/_search?q=*foo*:
{
"took": 5,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "things",
"_type": "thing",
"_id": "63",
"_score": 1,
"fields": {
"name": [
"foo bar"
],
"description": [
"this is my description"
],
"type": [
"inanimate"
]
}
}
]
}
}
This works well enough, but how do I combine filters with a query? Let's say I wanna search for "foo" in an index with multiple documents, but I only want to get those with type == "inanimate"?
This is my attempt so far:
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "*foo*"
}
},
"filter": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"term": { "type": "inanimate" }
}
}
}
}
}
}
When I remove the filter part, it returns an accurate set of document hits. But with this filter-definition it does not return anything, even though I can manually verify that there are documents with type == "inanimate".

Answer 1

Since you have not done explicit mapping, term query is looking for an exact match. you need to add "index : not_analyzed" to type field and then your query will work.
This will give you correct documents
{
"query": {
"match": {
"type": "inanimate"
}
}
}
but this is not the solution, You need do explicit mapping as I said.