Demo that "prefix"-query does not analyze the query text.

analysis.yaml

analyzer: 
    sample:
        text:
            - Jon Snow
            - Big Ben
        tokenizer: standard
        type: custom
        filter: 
            - lowercase
        

documents.yaml

---
_id: 1
color: green
driver: 
    born: "1989-09-12"
    name: Ben
make: BMW
model: Aztek
value: 3000
year: 2003
---
_id: 2
color: black
driver: 
    born: "1934-09-08"
    name: Jon
make: Mercedes
model: Benz
value: 10000
year: 2012
---
_id: 3
color: green
driver: 
    born: "1934-09-08"
    name: Jon
make: BMW
model: Benz
value: 10000
year: 2012

play.sh

#!/bin/bash

export ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:9200"

# Create indexes

curl -XPUT "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/play" -d '{
    "settings": {
        "analysis": {
            "analyzer": {
                "sample": {
                    "tokenizer": "standard",
                    "type": "custom",
                    "filter": [
                        "lowercase"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}'


# Index documents
curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_bulk?refresh=true" -d '
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"type","_id":1}}
{"color":"green","driver":{"born":"1989-09-12","name":"Ben"},"make":"BMW","model":"Aztek","value":3000,"year":2003}
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"type","_id":2}}
{"color":"black","driver":{"born":"1934-09-08","name":"Jon"},"make":"Mercedes","model":"Benz","value":10000,"year":2012}
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"type","_id":3}}
{"color":"green","driver":{"born":"1934-09-08","name":"Jon"},"make":"BMW","model":"Benz","value":10000,"year":2012}
'

# Do searches

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "prefix": {
            "driver.name": {
                "value": "jon"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "prefix": {
            "driver.name": {
                "value": "Jon"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

play.yaml

# Auto generated by Found's Play-tool at 2013-11-24T18:00:25+01:00
version: 0
title: "prefix-query sample"
description: "Demo that \"prefix\"-query does not analyze the query text."

searches.yaml

# In reply to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20165164/elasticseach-no-results-for-json-query

query: 
    prefix: 
        driver.name: 
            # This should find docs 2 and 3.
            value: jon

---

query: 
    prefix: 
        driver.name: 
            # "jon" is what's indexed. This will not match. See the Analysis-tab.
            value: Jon