Symbols in query-string for elasticsearch

Question

I have \"documents\" (activerecords) with an attribute called deviations. The attribute has values like \"Bin X\" \"Bin $\" \"Bin q\" \"Bin %\" etc.

I am trying to use t

Answer 1

You can sanitize your query string. Here is a sanitizer that works for everything that I've tried throwing at it:

def sanitize_string_for_elasticsearch_string_query(str)
  # Escape special characters
  # http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/2_9_1/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping Special Characters
  escaped_characters = Regexp.escape('\\/+-&|!(){}[]^~*?:')
  str = str.gsub(/([#{escaped_characters}])/, '\\\\\1')

  # AND, OR and NOT are used by lucene as logical operators. We need
  # to escape them
  ['AND', 'OR', 'NOT'].each do |word|
    escaped_word = word.split('').map {|char| "\\#{char}" }.join('')
    str = str.gsub(/\s*\b(#{word.upcase})\b\s*/, " #{escaped_word} ")
  end

  # Escape odd quotes
  quote_count = str.count '"'
  str = str.gsub(/(.*)"(.*)/, '\1\"\3') if quote_count % 2 == 1

  str
end

params[:query] = sanitize_string_for_elasticsearch_string_query(params[:query])