# Behavior of missing filter in 1.3.2
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/behavior-of-missing-filter-in-1-3-2/19716
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/behavior-of-missing-filter-in-1-3-2/19716 "2014-09-10T14:34:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Drew\_Daugherty\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drew_Daugherty_2)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/behavior-of-missing-filter-in-1-3-2/19716/1 "2014-09-10T14:34:28Z")
Hi,
I am trying to determine what the behavior of the missing filter should be.
I have a one-node instance of ES 1.3.2 running on centos 6.
I add the following simple document to an index:
{
"testField": "",
"testField2": ""
}
And ran the following query:
{
"query" : { "filtered" : {"filter": {
"missing": {
"field": "testField"
} } } }
}
At first, running under JDK 1.7.0\_60, I was not able to retrieve the
document. When I upgraded to JDK 1.7.0\_67, I was able to retrieve the
document with the query above. This is repeatable when I backlevel the jdk
I am not able to find the document. I am aware of the open issue affecting
the missing filter
at [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/7348](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/7348) but should I
rely on the missing filter working with null strings under JDK 1.7.0\_67?
-drew
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/behavior-of-missing-filter-in-1-3-2/19716/2 "2017-07-06T01:03:17Z")