Elasticsearch query_string in multi_match

Question

I have the following query in my ElasticSearch (I'm using version 1.6) application:

{
    "query":{
        "span_multi":{
            "match":{
                "query_string": {
                    "fields": ["field_name"],
                    "query": "*term*"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

and it works fine. As soon as I add another field to the fields parameter, like

{
    "query":{
        "span_multi":{
            "match":{
                "query_string": {
                    "fields": ["field_name", "another_field_name"],
                    "query": "*term*"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I get the following error:

spanMultiTerm [match] must be of type multi term query

What am I doing wrong? How could I fix this with the least impact on my original query?

Lax · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-18 12:12:15Z

1

You need to use multi match query:

{
    "multi_match" : {
      "query":    "*term*", 
      "fields": [ "field_name", "another_field_name" ] 
    }
}

answered Jan 18, 2017 at 12:12

Lax

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