Elasticsearch - Query document missing an array value - elasticsearch

Question

I would like to query my elasticsearch index in order to retrieve the documents that don't contain a specific value in an array. For instance, if my query is :
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_all": {}
}
],
"must_not": [],
"should": []
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10,
"sort": [],
"facets": {}
}
And the dataset :
{
"took": 1,
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "product__1434374235336",
"_type": "product",
"_id": "AU33Xeny0K4pKlL-a7sr",
"_source": {
"interdictions": ["S0P","SK3"],
"code": "foo"
}
},
{
"_index": "product__1434374235336",
"_type": "product",
"_id": "AU33Xeny0K4pKlL-a7sr",
"_source": {
"interdictions": ["S0P","S2V","SK3"],
"code": "bar"
}
}
]
}
}
The objective is to exclude each product that contains the "S2V" interdiction. I initially thought of using a missing filter :
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_all": {}
}
],
"must_not": [],
"should": []
}
},
"filter": {
"missing": {
"terms": {
"interdictions": [
"S2V"
]
}
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10,
"sort": [],
"facets": {}
}
But elasticsearch fails to parse the query : QueryParsingException[[product__1434374235336] [missing] filter does not support [interdictions]]; }]",. I then tried with a must_not :
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_all": {}
}
],
"must_not" : {
"terms" : {
"interdictions" : ["S2V"]
}
}
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10
}
But the output is incorrect since it returns a product with the S2V interdictions.
So... What is the correct way to do this ?
Thanks !

Answer 1

Try this (with lowercase value for the terms bool):
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_all": {}
}
],
"must_not": {
"terms": {
"interdictions": [
"s2v"
]
}
}
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10
}
Most probably, you have an analyzer (maybe the standard default one) that does lower case the terms, so in the ES index the value is indexed as s2v, sk3 etc. And terms doesn't analyze the input value, it's using it as is (in your case with uppercase letters), so it will never match.