Synonym list combined with wildcards got no more results

[JoeLiMo]

Hi,

I hope anyone could help us to develop the right way to solve our little problems with synonyms and wildcards in elastic search.

We are using a synonym list at our search to identified all relevant typings of users at our website. Without wildcard everything works fine, like:

curl -XGET --noproxy es01.liqui-moly.com.local:9200, 'es01.liqui-moly.com.local:9200/limo_b2c_de_idx2/_validate/query?explain&pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'

{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "must": {
                "query_string": {
                     "query": "vw50200",
                     "default_operator": "and",
                     "analyze_wildcard": true,
                     "allow_leading_wildcard": true,
                     "split_on_whitespace": false,
                     "fields": [
                         "name^5",
                         "sku",
                         "description",
                         "short_description",
                         "viscosity",
                         "all_approvals_recoms",
                         "keywords"
                     ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
'

An user typed in vw50200 and he got our page for VW 502 00.

{
  "valid" : true,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "explanations" : [
    {
      "index" : "limo_b2c_de_idx2",
      "valid" : true,
      "explanation" : "+(Synonym(all_approvals_recoms:VW 502 00 all_approvals_recoms:vw50200) | Synonym(description:VW 502 00 description:vw50200) | Synonym(keywords:VW 502 00 keywords:vw50200) | (Synonym(name:VW 502 00 name:vw50200))^5.0 | Synonym(short_description:VW 502 00 short_description:vw50200) | sku:vw50200 | Synonym(viscosity:VW 502 00 viscosity:vw50200))"
    }
  ]
}

But if we combinded this search with wildcards our synonym search is not longer working. Look at this case to search for *vw50200*

:

curl -XGET --noproxy es01.liqui-moly.com.local:9200, 'es01.liqui-moly.com.local:9200/limo_b2c_de_idx2/_validate/query?explain&pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'

{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "must": {
                "query_string": {
                     "query": "*vw50200*",
                     "default_operator": "and",
                     "analyze_wildcard": true,
                     "allow_leading_wildcard": true,
                     "split_on_whitespace": false,
                     "fields": [
                         "name^5",
                         "sku",
                         "description",
                         "short_description",
                         "viscosity",
                         "all_approvals_recoms",
                         "keywords"
                     ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
'

We got no result

   "valid" : true,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "explanations" : [
    {
      "index" : "limo_b2c_de_idx2",
      "valid" : true,
      "explanation" : "+(all_approvals_recoms:*vw50200* | description:*vw50200* | keywords:*vw50200* | (name:*vw50200*)^5.0 | short_description:*vw50200* | sku:*vw50200* | viscosity:*vw50200*)"
    }
  ]
}

Finally the all important question is: Is there a trick to work with wildcards and synonyms in ES ?

Thanks for your help and if you need any further informations I will handle this as soon as possible