Why isn't my elastic search query returning the text analyzed by english analyzer? - elasticsearch

Question

I have an index named test_blocks
{
"test_blocks" : {
"aliases" : { },
"mappings" : {
"block" : {
"dynamic" : "false",
"properties" : {
"content" : {
"type" : "string",
"fields" : {
"content_en" : {
"type" : "string",
"analyzer" : "english"
}
}
},
"id" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string",
"fields" : {
"title_en" : {
"type" : "string",
"analyzer" : "english"
}
}
},
"user_id" : {
"type" : "long"
}
}
}
},
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"creation_date" : "1438642440687",
"number_of_shards" : "5",
"number_of_replicas" : "1",
"version" : {
"created" : "1070099"
},
"uuid" : "45vkIigXSCyvHN6g-w5kkg"
}
},
"warmers" : { }
}
}
When I do a search for killing, a word in the content, the search results return as expected.
http://localhost:9200/test_blocks/_search?q=killing&pretty=1
{
"took" : 1,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 2,
"max_score" : 0.07431685,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "test_blocks",
"_type" : "block",
"_id" : "218",
"_score" : 0.07431685,
"_source":{"block":{"id":218,"title":"The \u003ci\u003eparticle\u003c/i\u003e streak","content":"Barry Allen is a Central City police forensic scientist\n with a reasonably happy life, despite the childhood\n trauma of a mysterious red and yellow being killing his\n mother and framing his father. All that changes when a\n massive \u003cb\u003eparticle\u003c/b\u003e accelerator accident leads to Barry\n being struck by lightning in his lab.","user_id":82}}
}, {
"_index" : "test_blocks",
"_type" : "block",
"_id" : "219",
"_score" : 0.07431685,
"_source":{"block":{"id":219,"title":"The \u003ci\u003eparticle\u003c/i\u003e streak","content":"Barry Allen is a Central City police forensic scientist\n with a reasonably happy life, despite the childhood\n trauma of a mysterious red and yellow being killing his\n mother and framing his father. All that changes when a\n massive \u003cb\u003eparticle\u003c/b\u003e accelerator accident leads to Barry\n being struck by lightning in his lab.","user_id":83}}
} ]
}
}
However given that I have an english analyzer for the content field (content_en), I would have expected it to return me the same document for the query kill. But it doesn't. I get 0 hits.
http://localhost:9200/test_blocks/_search?q=kill&pretty=1
{
"took" : 1,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 0,
"max_score" : null,
"hits" : [ ]
}
}
My understanding through this analyze query is that "killing" would have got broken down in to "kill"
http://localhost:9200/_analyze?analyzer=english&text=killing
{
"tokens" : [ {
"token" : "kill",
"start_offset" : 0,
"end_offset" : 7,
"type" : "<ALPHANUM>",
"position" : 1
} ]
}
So why isn't the query "kill" match that document ? Are my mappings incorrect or is it my search that is incorrect?
I am using elasticsearch v1.7.0

Answer 1

You need to use fuzzysearch (some introduction available here):
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/test_blocks/_search' -d '
{
"query": {
"match": {
"title": {
"query": "kill",
"fuzziness": 2,
"prefix_length": 1
}
}
}
}'
UPD. Having content_en field with content which was given by stemmer, it makes sense to actually query that field:
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/test_blocks/_search' -d '
{
"query": {
"multi_match": {
"type": "most_fields",
"query": "kill",
"fields": ["block.title", "block.title.title_en"]
}
}
}'

Answer 2

The following queries http://localhost:9200/_search?q=kill. ,http://localhost:9200/_search?q=kill. end up searching across
_all field .
_all field uses the default analyzer which unless overridden happens to be standard analyzer and not english analyzer .
For making the above query work you would need to add english analyzer to _all field and re-index
Example:
{
"mappings": {
"block": {
"_all" : {"analyzer" : "english"}
}
}
Also would point out the mapping in OP doesn't seem consistent with the document structure. As #EugZol pointed our the content is within block object so the mapping should be something on these lines :
{
"mappings": {
"block": {
"properties": {
"block": {
"properties": {
"content": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "standard",
"fields": {
"content_en": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "english"
}
}
},
"id": {
"type": "long"
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "standard",
"fields": {
"title_en": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "english"
}
}
},
"user_id": {
"type": "long"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}