Basic stemming problem - what am I missing?

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I am having a problem where "shirts" is not matching anything, even though there are many docs with the word "shirt" in the name field (and other fields). I know I am missing something really simple but I can't figure out what. These are my settings:

"analysis" : { "filter" : { "english_stemmer" : { "type" : "stemmer", "language" : "english" }, "english_stop" : { "type" : "stop", "stopwords" : "_english_" }, "english_possessive_stemmer" : { "type" : "stemmer", "language" : "possessive_english" } }, "analyzer" : { "english" : { "filter" : [ "english_possessive_stemmer", "lowercase", "english_stop", "english_stemmer", "asciifolding" ], "tokenizer" : "standard" } } }

and when I test analyze the word "shirts":

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/shop/_analyze?analyzer=english&text=shirts&pretty=1'

{ "tokens" : [ { "token" : "shirt", "start_offset" : 0, "end_offset" : 6, "type" : "<ALPHANUM>", "position" : 0 } ] }
..looks good. But my query doesn't return results!

`
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/shop/_search?explain=1&fields=skuid&from=0&pretty=1&size=18' -d '
{
"query" : {
"match" : {
"name" : {
"query" : "shirts"
}
}
}
}
'

[Thu Jun 23 19:30:22 2016] # Response: 200, Took: 66 ms
# {
#    "hits" : {
#       "hits" : [],
#       "max_score" : null,
#       "total" : 0
#    },
#    "timed_out" : false,
#    "_shards" : {
#       "failed" : 0,
#       "successful" : 5,
#       "total" : 5
#    },
#    "took" : 19
# }

`

2

As far as I can tell you've created the analyzer, but haven't assigned it
anywhere. The next step is to use a mapping to set the analyzer for a field

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping.html

Otherwise, you're just going to get the standard analyzer, which is a
fairly generic whitespace analyzer.

-Doug

3

Doh! That's definitely it. Thanks Doug!