# A query I believe should work, doesn't seem to **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837 "2010-03-04T18:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_O_Neill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/1 "2010-03-04T18:27:47Z")
I've loaded an ES instance with some sample data and while the queries in the documentation seem to work, I'm missing something when I try to get the same queries to work against my data. This query does not return any results: curl -XGET localhost:9200/music/song/\_search?q=artist:"Quarashi" Here is how I loaded the data: curl -XPOST [http://localhost:9200/music/song](http://localhost:9200/music/song) -d ' { song\_id : "00000000000000009771", title : "Malone Lives", version : "Clean Version", artist : "Quarashi", year : "2002", genre : "Pop", label : "Time Bomb Recordings", album\_title : "" }' Sorry for the rather simply question, I'll ask more interesting questions as I get further into this project. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/2 "2010-03-04T18:38:52Z")
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:27 -0800, Daniel O'Neill wrote: > I've loaded an ES instance with some sample data and while the queries > in the documentation seem to work, I'm missing something when I try to > get the same queries to work against my data. > > This query does not return any results: > > curl -XGET localhost:9200/music/song/\_search?q=artist:"Quarashi" It works for me, are you using the latest version from git? clint -- Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road, London, N5 1PR. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_O_Neill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/3 "2010-03-04T18:57:54Z")
Version: elasticsearch-0.4.0 not from git. Here's the actual transcript: $ curl -XPOST [http://localhost:9200/music/song](http://localhost:9200/music/song) -d ' > { > song\_id : "00000000000000009771", > title : "Malone Lives", > version : "Clean Version", > artist : "Quarashi", > year : "2002", > genre : "Pop", > label : "Time Bomb Recordings", > album\_title : "" > > }' > {"ok":true,"\_index":"music","\_type":"song","\_id":"7520c46e-5951-4a8c-88ec-8bdca9e2a849"} $ curl -XGET localhost:9200/music/song/\_search?q=artist:"Quarashi" {"\_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"hits":{"total": 0,"hits":}} While this query does work: $ curl -XGET localhost:9200/music/song/\_search?q=year:"2002" {"\_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"hits":{"total": 1,"hits": [{"\_index":"music","\_type":"song","\_id":"7520c46e-5951-4a8c-88ec-8bdca9e2a849", "\_source" : { song\_id : "00000000000000009771", title : "Malone Lives", version : "Clean Version", artist : "Quarashi", year : "2002", genre : "Pop", label : "Time Bomb Recordings", album\_title : "" }}]}} On Mar 4, 10:38 am, Clinton Gormley [clin...@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clin...@iannounce.co.uk) wrote: > It works for me, are you using the latest version from git? > > clint ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/4 "2010-03-04T19:07:53Z")
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:57 -0800, Daniel O'Neill wrote: > Version: elasticsearch-0.4.0 > not from git. Not knowing anything about the internals, I'd say it is likely that this has something to do with bugs that existed in mapping. A lot has changed in the latest version from github, a lot of bugs have been fixed. I would recommend using it over the 0.4 release. It's dead easy to compile. On linux, you'd do something like this: ``` cd ~ git clone git://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.git cd elasticsearch ./gradlew cd /path/where/you/want/elasticsearch unzip ~/elasticsearch/distributions/elasticsearch* ``` hth clint -- Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road, London, N5 1PR. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Daniel\_O\_Neill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_O_Neill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/5 "2010-03-04T19:41:44Z")
Since I'm just going through getting all this stuff to work on an Ubuntu 9.10 system, I may as well document some of the packages that aren't installed by default that are needed for elasticsearch apt-get install curl apt-get install sun-java6-bin apt-get install sun-java6-jdk apt-get install git-core (I may have missed a few packages, but the above should get things going) The build instructions are great, just one minor bug, in the unzip line: cd ~ git clone git://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.git cd elasticsearch ./gradlew cd /path/where/you/want/elasticsearch unzip ~/elasticsearch/build/distributions/elasticsearch\* Version 0.5.0-SNAPSHOT fixes the problem I presented earlier. Clinton, thank you very much for your help. Dan On Mar 4, 11:07 am, Clinton Gormley [clin...@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clin...@iannounce.co.uk) wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:57 -0800, Daniel O'Neill wrote: > > > Version: elasticsearch-0.4.0 > > not from git. > > Not knowing anything about the internals, I'd say it is likely that > this has something to do with bugs that existed in mapping. > > A lot has changed in the latest version from github, a lot of bugs have > been fixed. I would recommend using it over the 0.4 release. > > It's dead easy to compile. On linux, you'd do something like this: > > ``` > cd ~ > git clone git://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.git > cd elasticsearch > ./gradlew > > cd /path/where/you/want/elasticsearch > unzip ~/elasticsearch/distributions/elasticsearch* > > ``` > > hth > > clint > > -- > Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, > with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road, > London, N5 1PR. ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/6 "2010-03-04T19:45:37Z")
> The build instructions are great, just one minor bug, in the unzip > line: thanks for spotting that ## clint Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road, London, N5 1PR. ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/7 "2010-03-04T20:18:22Z")
Yea, current master is much more stable than 0.4. Expect 0.5 to be released any day... . -shay.banon On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote: > > The build instructions are great, just one minor bug, in the unzip > > line: > > thanks for spotting that > > ## clint > > Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, > with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road, > London, N5 1PR. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-query-i-believe-should-work-doesnt-seem-to/2837/8 "2017-07-06T04:25:27Z")