Elastic search exact match

Question

I\'m using elasticsearch and am having a devil of a time getting an exact match to happen. I\'ve tried various combinations of match, query_string, etc, and I either get not

Answer 1

Fields are analyzed with the standard analyzer by default. If you would like to check exact match, you could store your field not analyzed also e.g:

"dog":{
            "type":"multi_field",
            "fields":{
                "dog":{
                    "include_in_all":false,
                    "type":"string",
                    "index":"not_analyzed",
                    "store":"no"
                },
                "_tokenized":{
                    "include_in_all":false,
                    "type":"string",
                    "index":"analyzed",
                    "store":"no"
                }
            }
        }

Then you can query the dog-field for exact matches, and dog._tokenized for analyzed queries (like fulltext)