ElasticSearch ignoring field named 'tags' when specified in "fields"

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I have a search index, products, containing a field named tags, which is an array. Tags values appears in results when I don't add a fields section to my query, but when I do, it's just ignored outright, and doesn't appear in results, as shown below.

$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/products/_search?pretty' -d '{  "query": {"match_all": {} }, "fields": ["tags", "id", "slug"], "size": 2}'
{
  "took" : 4,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 321826,
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "products",
      "_type" : "products",
      "_id" : "39969794",
      "_score" : 1.0,
      "fields" : {
        "id" : [ "39969794" ],
        "slug" : [ "slug-39969794" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "products",
      "_type" : "products",
      "_id" : "21296413",
      "_score" : 1.0,
      "fields" : {
        "id" : [ "21296413" ],
        "slug" : [ "slug-21296413" ]
      }
    } ]
  }
}

Is there a reason or known issue for this? Is tags some kind of reserved word for ElasticSearch?

I'm using ES version 1.1.2 (Lucene 4.7).

Can you post the mapping for for the products index? And maybe the source for those two docs? — Sloan Ahrens
– Sloan Ahrens, Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 16:32

jdh2550 · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-12 20:41:13Z

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tags is not an ES reserved word. So that's not your problem.

Is your tags an array of atomic types (numbers, strings or booleans)? Or is it an array of objects?

fields only works with leaf nodes. So "fields": ["tags"] should work fine with an array of strings but it would fail with an array of tag objects.

answered May 12, 2015 at 20:41

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user7594840 · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-10 13:45:30Z

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Confused as to why you are using "fields" instead of "terms?"

$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/products/_search?pretty' -d 
 '{"query": 
    {
    "match_all": {} 
    }, 
   "terms": ["tags", "id", "slug"],
   "size": 2}'

answered Jul 10, 2019 at 13:45

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