Alias filtering issue

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Hello,

I'm trying to setup our ES with index aliassing and filtering. I'm getting unclear results when using the /_aliases endpoint to setup new aliases.

Based on the examples on the site, I've tried to get this to work.

PUT users/_alias/user_12
{
    "filter" : {
        "term": { "user_id" : "12" }
    }
}

GET /user_12/_search
=> This does return the 'filtered' results using the term above

From my point of view, the code below should do exactly the same. However this doesnt return any results:

POST /_aliases
{
	"actions" : [{
            "add" : {
                 "index" : "users",
                 "alias" : "user_12",
                 "filter" : { "term" : { "user_id" : "12" } }
            }
        }]
}

The 'filter' isnt stored when using the method above:

GET /_aliases

==>
{
  "users": {
    "aliases": {
      "user_12": {}
    }
  }
}

What am I missing here?

2

I have found the issue. This seems to be a bug in version 2.2.0.

After upgrading to the latest release (2.3.3) this solved the issue and the example above works correctly.