Multi-word query time synonyms in elasticsearch.

multi_word_synonyms

# delete old index if exists
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/syns?pretty'
 
# create index with synonym analyzer and mapping
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns?pretty' -d '{
"settings" : {
	"number_of_replicas": 0,
	"number_of_shards": 1,
	"index": {
		"analysis": {
			"analyzer": {
				"synonym": {
					"tokenizer": "standard",
					"filter": ["standard", "lowercase", "stop", "synonym"]
				}
			},
			"filter": {
				"synonym": {
					"type": "synonym",
					"synonyms": [
					"spider man => spiderman, spider man"
					]
				}
			}
		}
	}
},
	"mappings": {
		"test": {
			"properties": {
				"text": {
					"type": "string", 
					"index_analyzer": "standard", 
					"search_analyzer": "synonym", 
					"expand":"true"
				}
			}
		}
	}
}'
 
# index the test documents
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/1?pretty' -d '{"text": "the adventures of spiderman"}'
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/2?pretty' -d '{"text": "what hath man wrought?"}'
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/3?pretty&refresh=true' -d '{"text": "spider man eat insects"}'
 
 
# working query, finds correct document #1
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/_search?pretty' -d '{"query": {"match": {"text": "spider man"}}}'
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/_search?pretty' -d '{"query": {"match": {"text": "spiderman"}}}'