I have a document with a field "message", that contains the following text
(truncated):
Welcome to test.com!
The assertion field is mapped to have an analyzer that breaks that string
into the following tokens:
welcome
to
test
com
But, when I search with a query like this:
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "id:3955974 AND message:welcome-doesnotmatchanything"
}
}
}
To my surprise, it finds the document (3955974 is the document id). The
dash and everything after it seems to be ignored, because it does not
matter what I put there, it will still match the document.
I've tried escaping it:
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "id:3955974 AND message:welcome\\-doesnotmatchanything"
}
}
}
(note the double escape since it has to be escaped for the JSON too)
But that makes no difference. I still get 1 matching document. If I put it
in quotes it works:
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "id:3955974 AND message:\"welcome-doesnotmatchanything\""
}
}
}
It works, meaning it matches 0 documents, since that document does not
contain the "doesnotmatchanything" token. That's great, but I don't
understand why the unquoted version does not work. This query is being
generated so I can't easily just decide to start quoting it, and I can't
always do that anyway since the user is sometimes going to use wildcards,
which can't be quoted if I want them to function. I was under the
assumption that an EscapedUnquotedString is the same as a quoted unespaced
string (in other words, foo:a\b\c === foo:"abc", assuming all special
characters are escaped in the unquoted version).
I'm only on ES 1.01, but I don't see anything new or changes that would
have impacted this behavior in later versions.
Any insights would be helpful! :)
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