Trouble filtering on date

I have an index called private_data, with documents such as exact.date, name, etc. The data type in exact.date is date.

My code right now is s = Search(using=client, index = ['private_data']).source(['exact.date']).query("match",date= (datetime.date.today()))

The problem is the format of the exact.date documents is for example 2018-07-02T06:55:55.569Z, whereas datetime is in the format month-day-year. Is datetime still the best option to use in this scenario?

[honzakral]

Because you are doing an exact match against the date value (== number of miliseconds since the epoch) so only the exact same date, down to a milisecond, would match. If you want the whole day you need to use the range query/filter:

s = s.filter('range', date={'gte': date.today(), 'lt': date.today() + timedelta(days=1)})

[honzakral]

@johnsiano match will always choose the appropriate way to match a field and since date is stored as a number, there can be no partial match so it requires an exact match. Same applies to keyword fields etc.

Scoring typically only makes sense for text fields.