elasticsearch - all terms in any fields

Question

For a search function in an onlineshop, I'm using ongr's elasticsearchDSL (git / docs).

Basic setup to search product names:

$boolQuery = new BoolQuery();
$boolQuery->addParameter('minimum_should_match', 1);
$wcQuery = new WildcardQuery('name', "*$_term*");
$boolQuery->add($wcQuery, BoolQuery::MUST);

This has an annoying behavior:

The query "notebook" finds all products with that term. But the query "note book" finds nothing at all.

Maybe a wildcard query isn't the best practice anyways.

What I need:

• search multiple fields (name, description, manufacturer)
• no fuzzieness: find all the search terms in any of those fields

What's the best way to do that?

I've tried MultiMatchQuery with types best_fields and phrase_prefix and SHOULD/MUST combination, but either the result has too many irrelevant results or none at all.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

figured out a solution:

$boolQuery = new BoolQuery();
$boolQuery->addParameter('minimum_should_match', '100%');

// search by manufacurer number
$wcQuery = new QueryStringQuery("$term", [
    'fields' => [ 'manufacturerNumber' ]
]);
$boolQuery->add($wcQuery, BoolQuery::SHOULD);

// split query into single terms
$term = explode(" ", trim(preg_replace("@[^a-z0-9äöüß\-]@", " ", strtolower($term))));

// find all terms in any fields
foreach($term as $_term){
    $wcQuery = new QueryStringQuery("*$_term*", [
        'fields' => [ 'name', 'shortDescription', 'manufacturerName' ]
    ]);
    $boolQuery->add($wcQuery, BoolQuery::SHOULD);
}

Leading wildcard isn't ideal I guess, but it works just fine like this. No performance issues at all.