# Highlight\_query: nested query with wildcard search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610 "2017-08-10T12:25:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Ott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_ott/32/105905_2.png) [@Alexander\_Ott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Ott)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610/1 "2017-08-10T12:25:16Z")

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Hello,

for our highlighting currently we have a field "snippet" which contains all contenttext of all nested documents under du.content.content4b.contenttext

We want to remove the snippet field and use a nested query inside the highlight\_query which we have defined as followed

```
{
   "query": {
      "bool": {
         "must": [
            {
               "match": {
                  "du_key": "100010549"
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   "_source": false,
   "highlight": {
      "highlight_query": {
         "bool": {
            "should": [
               {
                  "query_string": {
                     "query": "hund",
                     "default_field": "snippet"
                  }
               },
               {
                  "nested": {
                     "query": {
                        "query_string": {
                           "query": "hund",
                           "default_field": "du.content.content4b.contenttext"
                        }
                     },
                     "path": "du.content"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      "fields": {
         "du.content.content4b.contenttext": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         },
         "snippet": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         }
      }
   }
}

```

Which returns the following result

```
  "hits": {
  "total": 1,
  "max_score": 1,
  "hits": [
     {
        "_index": "hr-sd",
        "_type": "searchdoc",
        "_id": "100010549@2@0@0#0",
        "_score": 1,
        "highlight": {
           "snippet": [
              "Schwanenteich, am Ufer schwarzer Schwan, im Teich badet <em>Hund</em> Neufundländer"
           ],
           "du.content.content4b.contenttext": [
              "Schwanenteich, am Ufer schwarzer Schwan, im Teich badet <em>Hund</em> Neufundländer"
           ]
        }
     }
  ]

```

}

Which seems okay for us. But if we used wildcards "hund\*" instead of "hund"

```
{
   "query": {
      "bool": {
         "must": [
            {
               "match": {
                  "du_key": "100010549"
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   "_source": false,
   "highlight": {
      "highlight_query": {
         "bool": {
            "should": [
               {
                  "query_string": {
                     "query": "hund*",
                     "default_field": "snippet"
                  }
               },
               {
                  "nested": {
                     "query": {
                        "query_string": {
                           "query": "hund*",
                           "default_field": "du.content.content4b.contenttext"
                        }
                     },
                     "path": "du.content"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      "fields": {
         "du.content.content4b.contenttext": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         },
         "snippet": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         }
      }
   }
}

```

the result looks different and only returns highlight: "snippet"

```
    "hits": [
     {
        "_index": "hr-sd",
        "_type": "searchdoc",
        "_id": "100010549@2@0@0#0",
        "_score": 1,
        "highlight": {
           "snippet": [
              "Schwanenteich, am Ufer schwarzer Schwan, im Teich badet <em>Hund</em> Neufundländer"
           ]
        }
     }
  ]

```

Do we make any mistake or is this a known bug?

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Ott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_ott/32/105905_2.png) [@Alexander\_Ott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Ott)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610/2 "2017-08-11T05:19:36Z")

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With this code it is possible to reproduce our issue in Elasticsearch 5.5.0 in Elasticsearch 2.4.4 we can't reproduce this issue

```
PUT testcase
{
   "settings": {
      "index": {
         "number_of_replicas": 0
      }
   },
   "mappings": {
      "searchdoc": {
         "dynamic_templates": [
            {
               "nested_du_content": {
                  "match": "content4*",
                  "mapping": {
                     "type": "object",
                     "doc_values": false,
                     "properties": {
                        "contenttext": {
                           "type": "text",
                           "doc_values": false,
                           "norms": false,
                           "copy_to": [
                              "du.content.contenttext"
                           ]
                        }
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         ],
         "properties": {
            "snippet": {
               "type": "text",
               "doc_values": false,
               "norms": false,
               "index": false
            },
            "du": {
               "dynamic": "strict",
               "type": "nested",
               "include_in_root": "true",
               "properties": {
                  "content": {
                     "type": "nested",
                     "include_in_parent": "true",
                     "dynamic": "true",
                     "properties": {
                        "contenttext": {
                           "type": "text",
                           "doc_values": false,
                           "norms": false
                        }
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

POST testcase/searchdoc
{
   "snippet": [
      "Bensheim - Auerbach. Das Fürstenlager, ein Landschaftsgarten.",
      "Schwanenteich, am Ufer schwarzer Schwan, im Teich badet Hund Neufundländer",
      "Blumen Engelstrompeten",
      "Gebäude und Anlage Fürstenlager",
      "Quellen, Park Herrenwiese, Hügellandschaft, Tempel, einzelne große alte Bäume, Wein, Eremitage"
   ],
   "du": {
      "content": [
         {
            "content4t": {
               "contenttext": "Bensheim - Auerbach. Das Fürstenlager, ein Landschaftsgarten."
            }
         },
         {
            "content4b": {
               "contenttext": "Schwanenteich, am Ufer schwarzer Schwan, im Teich badet Hund Neufundländer"
            }
         },
         {
            "content4b": {
               "contenttext": "Blumen Engelstrompeten"
            }
         },
         {
            "content4b": {
               "contenttext": "Gebäude und Anlage Fürstenlager"
            }
         },
         {
            "content4b": {
               "contenttext": "Quellen, Park Herrenwiese, Hügellandschaft, Tempel, einzelne große alte Bäume, Wein, Eremitage"
            }
         }
      ]
   }
}

<!-- Okay without wildcard -->
GET testcase/_search
{
   "query": {
      "bool": {
         "must": [
            {
               "match_all": {}
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   "_source": false,
   "highlight": {
      "highlight_query": {
         "bool": {
            "should": [
               {
                  "query_string": {
                     "query": "hund",
                     "default_field": "snippet"
                  }
               },
               {
                  "nested": {
                     "query": {
                        "query_string": {
                           "query": "hund",
                           "default_field": "du.content.content4b.contenttext"
                        }
                     },
                     "path": "du.content"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      "fields": {
         "maintitle": {},
         "subtitle": {},
         "du.content.content4b.contenttext": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         },
         "snippet": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         }
      }
   }
}

<!-- NOT oky with wildcard, only snippet field is highlighted -->
GET testcase/_search
{
   "query": {
      "bool": {
         "must": [
            {
               "match_all": {}
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   "_source": false,
   "highlight": {
      "highlight_query": {
         "bool": {
            "should": [
               {
                  "query_string": {
                     "query": "hund*",
                     "default_field": "snippet"
                  }
               },
               {
                  "nested": {
                     "query": {
                        "query_string": {
                           "query": "hund*",
                           "default_field": "du.content.content4b.contenttext"
                        }
                     },
                     "path": "du.content"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      "fields": {
         "maintitle": {},
         "subtitle": {},
         "du.content.content4b.contenttext": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         },
         "snippet": {
            "fragment_size": 50,
            "number_of_fragments": 3
         }
      }
   }
}
```

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Ott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_ott/32/105905_2.png) [@Alexander\_Ott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Ott)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610/3 "2017-08-17T05:48:33Z")

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If anyone is interrested in this issue --\> [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/26230](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/26230)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-nested-query-with-wildcard-search/96610/4 "2017-09-14T05:48:42Z")

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