"stop" filter behaving differently in Elasticsearch when using "_all" - search

Question

I'm trying to implement a match search in Elasticsearch, and I noticed that the behavior is different depending if I use _all or if a enter a specific string value as the field name of my query.
To give some context, I've created an index with the following settings:
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"default": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"stop",
"kstem",
"word_delimiter"
]
}
}
}
}
}
If I create a document like:
{
"name": "Hello.World"
}
And I execute a search using _all like:
curl -d '{"query": { "match" : { "_all" : "hello" } }}' http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/_search
It will correctly match the document (since I'm using the stop filter to split the words at the dot), but if I execute this query instead:
curl -d '{"query": { "match" : { "name" : "hello" } }}' http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/_search
Nothing is being returned instead. How is this possible?

Answer 1

Issue a GET for /myindex/mytype/_mapping and see if your index is configured the way you think it is. Meaning, see if that "name" field is not_analyzed, for example.
Even more, run the following query to see how name field is actually indexed:
{
"query": {
"match": {
"name": "hello"
}
},
"fielddata_fields": ["name"]
}
You should see something like this in the result:
"fields": {
"name": [
"hello",
"world"
]
}
If you don't, then you know something's wrong with your mapping for the name field.