# Non-analyzed Field Must Be Null

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748 "2011-01-05T19:18:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![timscott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timscott/32/3220_2.png) [@timscott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timscott)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748/1 "2011-01-05T19:18:14Z")

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How can I query to return only documents with a certain non-analyzed field equal null? I tried this, but it didn't work:

{"wildcard":{"MyField":{"value":null}}}

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**Author:** ![timscott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timscott/32/3220_2.png) [@timscott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timscott)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748/2 "2011-01-05T19:30:50Z")

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This seems to work. Is there a better (more correct) way?

{"field":{"MyField":{"query":"-\*"}}}

How can I query to return only documents with a certain non-analyzed field equal null? I tried this, but it didn't work:

{"wildcard":{"MyField":{"value":null}}}

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748/3 "2011-01-05T19:35:05Z")

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On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:30 -0800, timscott wrote:

> This seems to work. Is there a better (more correct) way?
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> {"field":{"MyField":{"query":"-\*"}}}

Look at

[http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest\_api/query\_dsl/missing\_filter/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest_api/query_dsl/missing_filter/)

clint

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-analyzed-field-must-be-null/3748/4 "2017-07-06T04:14:15Z")

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