# Possible bug in completion context suggester (6.8 and 7.10)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug-in-completion-context-suggester-6-8-and-7-10/275718
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug-in-completion-context-suggester-6-8-and-7-10/275718 "2021-06-11T20:10:22Z")
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### Author:  [@bklippel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bklippel)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug-in-completion-context-suggester-6-8-and-7-10/275718/1 "2021-06-11T20:10:22Z")
Hi, I've come across some strange behavior using the completion suggest. In my scenario it seems that inputs over ~34 characters are ignored. I have steps to reproduce.
Create this index, post this doc then try the query, then edit and re-index the doc with a slightly shorter nameSuggest.input (take 1 char off the end), and try again. I have tried with 6.8 and 7.10, same result. I have set the max\_input\_length to 500, which unsurprisingly didn't help since the issue is occurring before the default of 50.
```auto
PUT suggest-test
{
"settings": {
"index": {
"mapping": {
"ignore_malformed": "true"
},
"refresh_interval": "1s",
"number_of_shards": "4",
"sort": {
"field": "suggestType"
},
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"ngram_filter": {
"type": "edge_ngram",
"min_gram": "1",
"max_gram": "24"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"whitespace_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "lowercase"
},
"ngram_analyzer": {
"filter": [
"ngram_filter",
"lowercase"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "lowercase"
}
}
},
"number_of_replicas": "1"
}
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"createdDate": {
"type": "date"
},
"healthSystemId": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"id": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"imageUrl": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"inputNgram": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ngram_analyzer",
"search_analyzer": "whitespace_analyzer"
},
"inputValue": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"modifiedDate": {
"type": "date"
},
"nameSuggest": {
"type": "completion",
"analyzer": "ngram_analyzer",
"search_analyzer": "whitespace_analyzer",
"preserve_separators": true,
"preserve_position_increments": false,
"max_input_length": 500,
"contexts": [
{
"name": "HealthSystemId",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "healthSystemId"
},
{
"name": "SuggestType",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "suggestType"
},
{
"name": "SuggestSubType",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "suggestSubType"
}
]
},
"objectType": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"relatedCount": {
"type": "long"
},
"searchAttributeName": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"sourceReference": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"sourceReferenceExternal": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"sourceReferenceSecondary": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"subType": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"suggest": {
"type": "completion",
"analyzer": "whitespace_analyzer",
"preserve_separators": true,
"preserve_position_increments": false,
"max_input_length": 500,
"contexts": [
{
"name": "HealthSystemId",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "healthSystemId"
},
{
"name": "SuggestType",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "suggestType"
},
{
"name": "SuggestSubType",
"type": "CATEGORY",
"path": "suggestSubType"
}
]
},
"suggestSubType": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"suggestType": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"suggestedValue": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"type": {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
```
```auto
PUT /suggest-test/_doc/PDS215725
{
"healthSystemId" : 197,
"id" : "PDS215725",
"type" : "Specialty",
"subType" : [],
"suggestType" : "197-Specialty",
"suggestSubType" : ["5c478f3a47d751d586b66baf1ea952a51"],
"inputValue" : "Vascular and Interventional Radiology",
"nameSuggest" : {
"input" : ["Vascular and Interventional Radiology Te"]
},
"suggestedValue" : "Marketing Published Specialty:Vascular and Interventional Radiology",
"searchAttributeName" : "specialtyDomains.specialties.specialtyFullName",
"sourceReference" : "215724",
"sourceReferenceSecondary" : "",
"createdDate" : "2021-06-11T05:09:18",
"modifiedDate" : "2021-06-11T05:09:18",
"objectType" : "provider",
"relatedCount" : 0
}
```
```auto
POST /suggest-test/_search
{
"size": 100,
"suggest": {
"specialty": {
"completion": {
"contexts": {
"SuggestSubType": [
{
"context": "5c478f3a47d751d586b66baf1ea952a51"
}
]
},
"field": "nameSuggest",
"size": 100
},
"prefix": "vascular"
}
}
}
```
no result...
```auto
PUT /suggest-test/_doc/PDS215725
{
"healthSystemId" : 197,
"id" : "PDS215725",
"type" : "Specialty",
"subType" : [],
"suggestType" : "197-Specialty",
"suggestSubType" : ["5c478f3a47d751d586b66baf1ea952a51"],
"inputValue" : "Vascular and Interventional Radiology",
"nameSuggest" : {
"input" : ["Vascular and Interventional Radiology T"]
},
"suggestedValue" : "Marketing Published Specialty:Vascular and Interventional Radiology",
"searchAttributeName" : "specialtyDomains.specialties.specialtyFullName",
"sourceReference" : "215724",
"sourceReferenceSecondary" : "",
"createdDate" : "2021-06-11T05:09:18",
"modifiedDate" : "2021-06-11T05:09:18",
"objectType" : "provider",
"relatedCount" : 0
}
```
```auto
POST /suggest-test/_search
{
"size": 100,
"suggest": {
"specialty": {
"completion": {
"contexts": {
"SuggestSubType": [
{
"context": "5c478f3a47d751d586b66baf1ea952a51"
}
]
},
"field": "nameSuggest",
"size": 100
},
"prefix": "vascular"
}
}
}
```
1 result!
What is going on here?
Thanks,
Brian
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug-in-completion-context-suggester-6-8-and-7-10/275718/2 "2021-07-09T20:11:18Z")
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