Searchkick: Any way to search case insensitive, or to change the analyzer?

[jakcharlton]

AFAIK to do a case insensitive search in ES requires a lowercase analyser ... Can this be done on a global level, short of mapping individual fields?

[jakcharlton]

Sorry - to clarify ... I know that using the Searchkick syntax the default string uses lowercase:

> Contact.search('eric').count
=> 1
> Contact.search('Eric').count
=> 1

But I want to search on multiple text fields, and the the match becomes case sensitive:

> Contact.search('*', where: {first_name: ['Eric']  }).count
=> 1
> Contact.search('*', where: {first_name: ['eric']  }).count
=> 0

> Contact.search(query: {query_string: {default_field: 'first_name', query: "Eric"}}).count
=> 1
> Contact.search(query: {query_string: {default_field: 'first_name', query: "eric"}}).count
=> 0

I can't find any type of ES query condition that will allow me to do what the Searchkick default query is obviously doing

[ankane]

There's not an easy way to do this right now. Your best bet is to fork the gem and remove the lowercase token filters.

https://github.com/ankane/searchkick/blob/master/lib/searchkick/reindex.rb#L97

[macowie]

Just ran into this, I'd think it would be common enough to warrant some kind of option when building the query. Loving searchkick despite it though!

[edslocomb]

Three-year Bump?

Case-insensitive search is what most of our clients seem to want.

[ankane]

@jakcharlton Search is case-insensitive. where option is case-sensitive (just like SQL).