{
"id": 5,
"title": "Quick Brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
"genre": [
"fiction"
]
}
{
"movies" : {
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"genre" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"id" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
{
"query": {
"match_phrase": {
"title": {
"query": "fox quick over", "slop": 3
}
}
}
}
{
"query": {
"match_phrase": {
"title": {
"query": "over fox quick", "slop": 3
}
}
}
}
I was expecting a result in query2 rather than in query 1.
Slop
Number of times you need to move a term in order to make the query and document match.
Switching word order requires two edits/steps
Below is movement of words
Query 1:
Pos 1 Pos 2 Pos 3 Pos 4 Pos 5 Pos 6 Pos 7 Pos 8
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Doc: quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Query: fox quick over
Slop 1: fox|quick over
Slop 2: quick fox over
Slop 3: quick fox over
total steps 3
Query 2:
Pos 1 Pos 2 Pos 3 Pos 4 Pos 5 Pos 6 Pos 7 Pos 8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doc: quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Query: over fox quick
Slop 1: over fox|quick
Slop 2: quick|over fox
Slop 3: quick over fox
Slop 4: quick over|fox
Slop 5: quick fox over
Slop 6: quick fox over
Total steps 6