ElasticSearch query with query inputs

Question

i have an index of data in ElasticSearch

{
  "name":"john",
  "type":"main",
  "address":"26, pression road, next to maha maul, Atlanta, USA",
  "description":"i am from atlanta. i a need of help on elastic search. my name is john wosniak"
},
{
  "name":"shailesh",
  "type":"other",
  "address":"c-401, greenfield road, next to cyber city, mumbai, india",
  "description":"i am from mumbai. i dont need. my name shailesh"
},
{
  "name":"pratik",
  "type":"main",
  "address":"c-116, parmar society, john main road, andhari, India",
  "description":"i am from andhari. i a need of help on elastic search. my name is pratik doshi, i am good friend of john"
},...

i want to search using some advance query such that it searches "type":"main" and "john" in rest of all the fields.

for now i am using the query

{
    "query_string" : {
        "fields" : ["name", "type","address", "description"],
        "query" : "main john*"
    }
}

it is not giving me desired result as per my requirement.

hope i have explained clearly. thanks for the help in advance.

ChintanShah25 · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-02 03:45:00Z

1

Did you look at bool query?

You can achieve desired results with boosting

 {
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "match": {
            "type": {
              "query": "main",
              "boost": 10
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "john",
            "fields": [
              "name",
              "address",
              "description"
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

edited Dec 2, 2015 at 3:45

answered Nov 30, 2015 at 20:00

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4 Comments

dhpratik Over a year ago

your answer works fine for one of my requirement. just a quick run-up. i could not find/make a suitable solution by Boolean query for a different type of requirement. i needed all the results having "type": "main" at top and rest all below it based on "multi_match": { "query": "john",. can you also help me with that.

ChintanShah25 Over a year ago

do you want both conditions to be true or just any one of the two?basically your requirement is AND or OR?

dhpratik Over a year ago

OR Condition but "type":"main" results should be on top

Ankit Avlani Over a year ago

Is there any way to boost certain string and get those many results in top of the search. In the above example i take all the results where i find john and those many johns who are having type: main comes on the top of the result and rest below it

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