Elasticsearch Analysis

Question

How do I run this in chrome sense plugin:

 GET /_analyze?analyzer=standard?text='This is a test'

I am getting following error, not sure what is missing:

{
   "error": "ElasticSearchIllegalArgumentException[text is missing]",
   "status": 400
}

Answer 1

There's a typo in your request. The second '?' should be an '&'

GET /_analyze?analyzer=standard&text='This is a test'

Answer 2

In addition to the answer, for troubleshooting this type of issue and to see what is being analyzed, use the analyze API in Elasticsearch 1x. Here is an example:

GET dev_data/_analyze?field=MYFIELD_IND&text=Y 

{
   "tokens": [
      {
         "token": "y",
         "start_offset": 0,
         "end_offset": 1,
         "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
         "position": 1
      }
   ]
}

My problem was I was searching for an uppercase "Y", when it was an analyzed string, which by default is lowercase and my term search couldn't find it. When I realized the case sensitive issue I reran the query with the lowercase "y" and it worked!