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How to search query by field with exact match in Elasticsearch

I'm trying to search for a document, by field value. The field is of type String that was defined in the index like this:

"field" : { 
        "type" : "string"
 }

There are no other settings to the index but the mappings.

I tried various queries to try to find documents with field="test", and every time I get no results or results that contain that substring "test". I want the document where "field" matches "test" exactly.

I tried match, match_phrase, term and query_string, none of which seems to work as I want.

Solution

  • You need to use term query with keyword like this

    {
   "query" : {
      "term" : {
         "field.keyword" : "test"
      }
   }
}

    hope this helps.