Hello Aleh ,
Both should be good for your purpose.
But then if you want to match against "abc def" ( that is with the space)
tomorrow , the array type will alone help.
You can disable the analyzer for the field and achieve the functionality
which you cant if its a normal string.
Thanks
Vineeth
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Aleh Aleshka <olegl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> i'd like to have a field in document to which i'm going to append strings
> and use span_near queries to search for a specific sequence of strings in it
> i wonder if that kind of usage makes sense, and if using array of strings
> instead of one long string would be better?
>
> i.e.
> which document is better for this kind of query
>
> GET /my_index/_search
> {
> "query": {
> "span_near": {
> "clauses": [
> {
> "span_term": {
> "seq" : "lolrof"
> }
> }
>
> ,{
> "span_multi": {
> "match": {
> "regexp": {"seq" : "000200<0-20003>"}
> }
> }
> }
> ],
> "slop": 100500,
> "in_order": true
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> and this kind of update:
>
> POST /my_index/4aeN2WBSS8WIpUpplUryPg/_update
> {
> "script" : "ctx._source.seq += ['tag']"
> }
>
>
> documents:
>
> POST /my_index
> {
> "seq": ["lolrofl","000100010001","000200020002"]
> }
>
>
> POST /my_index
> {
> "seq": "lolrofl 000100010001 000200020002"
> }
>
>
> Thanks, Aleh
>
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