Adding Fuzziness to Bool Query

[Duncan_Mein]

Hi. I am very new to ElasticSearch so please be gentle

I have the following bool query which is working well for me:

"query":{
"bool": {
"should": [
{"match":
{"surname" : "JONES"}
},
{"match":
{
"person_id" : "653463546"
}
}
]
}
}
}'

I am wanting to add some fuzziness into the surname search to catch typos or spelling mistakes but no matter where I try and add: "fuzziness": "AUTO", it seems to error.

If anyone has a sec, please can you help to get this working.

Cheers

Duncs

[tamara (Tamara Rosini)]

Here is the right way to do the fuzziness in your query.

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "match": {
            "surname" : {
              "query" :  "JONES",
              "fuzziness": "AUTO"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "match": {
            "person_id": "653463546"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

[Duncan_Mein]

@tamara

653463546

Thanks so much. Makes sense looking at that syntax. Cheers for the prompt reply.

[tamara (Tamara Rosini)]

You are welcome, if you want to see more examples of how you can use the match query you can see the link.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html

Also a good query to take a look is the bool query, which make possible combination of queries.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html