Elastic Search only matches full field - amazon-web-services

Question

I have just started using Elastic Search 6 on AWS.
I have inserted data into my ES endpoint but I can only search it using the full sentence and not match individual words. In the past I would have used not_analyzed it seems, but this has been replaced by 'keyword'. However this still doesn't work.
Here is my index:
{
"seven" : {
"aliases" : { },
"mappings" : {
"myobjects" : {
"properties" : {
"id" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"myId" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"myUrl" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"myName" : {
"type" : "keyword"
},
"myText" : {
"type" : "keyword"
}
}
}
},
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"number_of_shards" : "5",
"provided_name" : "seven",
"creation_date" : "1519389595593",
"analysis" : {
"filter" : {
"nGram_filter" : {
"token_chars" : [
"letter",
"digit",
"punctuation",
"symbol"
],
"min_gram" : "2",
"type" : "nGram",
"max_gram" : "20"
}
},
"analyzer" : {
"nGram_analyzer" : {
"filter" : [
"lowercase",
"asciifolding",
"nGram_filter"
],
"type" : "custom",
"tokenizer" : "whitespace"
},
"whitespace_analyzer" : {
"filter" : [
"lowercase",
"asciifolding"
],
"type" : "custom",
"tokenizer" : "whitespace"
}
}
},
"number_of_replicas" : "1",
"uuid" : "_vNXSADUTUaspBUu6zdh-g",
"version" : {
"created" : "6000199"
}
}
}
}
}
I have data like this:
{
"took" : 3,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"skipped" : 0,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 13,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "seven",
"_type" : "myobjects",
"_id" : "8",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source" : {
"myUrl" : "https://myobjects.com/wales.gif",
"myText" : "Objects for Welsh Things",
"myName" : "Wales"
}
},
{
"_index" : "seven",
"_type" : "myobjects",
"_id" : "5",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source" : {
"myUrl" : "https://myobjects.com/flowers.gif",
"myText" : "Objects for Flowery Things",
"myNoun" : "Flowers"
}
}
]
}
}
If I then search for 'Objects' I get nothing. If I search for 'Objects for Flowery Things' I get the single result.
I am using this to search for items :
POST /seven/objects/_search?pretty
{
"query": {
"multi_match" : { "query" : q, "fields": ["myText", "myNoun"], "fuzziness":"AUTO" }
}
}
Can anybody tell me how to have the search match any word in the sentence rather than having to put the whole sentence in the query?

Answer 1

This is because your myName and myText fields are of keyword type:
...
"myName" : {
"type" : "keyword"
},
"myText" : {
"type" : "keyword"
}
...
and because of this they are not analyzed and only full match will work for them. Change the type to text and it should work as you expected:
...
"myName" : {
"type" : "text"
},
"myText" : {
"type" : "text"
}
...