ES not indexing numbers?

[shawn]

Any ideas where to start looking for the problem? Everything else seems fine at the moment, but I realized that any searches for numbers come back empty.

 

[Slavik]

Any custom mapping / stemming or word blocklists?

 

[shawn]

Not that I recall.

 

[CTXMedia]

Just wondering if this is a string length issue or character type issue - when you say numbers, do you mean short numbers such a 5 or 13 or 323 - or do larger numbers not work too, such as 20000 or 75000?

My thinking is that there is a general string length restriction (usually 3/4 chars [unless you alter it in the settings]) so if you're searching for smaller values such as 15 it may not work anyway because it is only two characters long.

 

[Digital Doctor]

You can change the min character length in MySQL ... at least for the non-ES search. Probably for both.

 

[Slavik]

Es min word length is defined in admin.php?options/list/searchOptions

 

[shawn]

Minimum word length is set to two characters. It's not returning four character numbers (2003, etc)

 

[shawn]

Rebuilt the indices just for fun. No change.

Interestingly, mixes of letters and numbers (M3, etc) work fine, but strings only of numbers do not. How would I go about checking the maps and blocklists?

 

[shawn]

Just an update: I upgraded java to the current version, upgraded ES to 0.19.12, rebuilt the indices, and it seems to be working properly again. It was on 0.18.?? before.

 

[digitalpoint]

It's the tokenizer you have it set to use (or just the default one). Most don't support indexing numbers (they will index alpha-numeric words though as you noticed).

This is the settings I use for digitalpoint.com which breaks apart words on punctuation (for example you could find a post that had "www.digitalpoint.com" in it by searching for "digitalpoint"... normally that's not the case), AND it indexes numbers with the pattern tokenizer.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/change-analyzer-for-enhanced-search.643/