Elasticsearch javascript search field in array

Question

This comes directly from the elasticsearch documentation.

client.search({
  index: 'myindex',
  body: {
    query: {
      match: {
        title: 'test'
      }
    }
  }
}, function (error, response) {
  // ...
});

What I am trying to achieve is the same but search for multiple titles.

Sort of the equivallent of if title in ['title1', 'title2', 'title3']

However title: ['title1', 'title2', 'title3'] gives an error as a query string.

There was another suggestion to use filter but it seems to not have any effect. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Val · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01 12:35:25Z

1

The correct way is to append all the title values into your query string as it will be analyzed and thus the title field will be matched against each token.

client.search({
  index: 'myindex',
  body: {
    query: {
      match: {
        title: 'title1 title2 title3'
      }
    }
  }
}, function (error, response) {
  // ...
});

UPDATE

If you search for not-analyzed values, you should prefer a terms query:

client.search({
  index: 'myindex',
  body: {
    query: {
      terms: {
        title: ['title1', 'title2', 'title3']
      }
    }
  }
}, function (error, response) {
  // ...
});

edited Sep 1, 2016 at 12:35

answered Sep 1, 2016 at 11:55

Val

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4 Comments

SD. Over a year ago

I am searching on non-analysed fields (IDs) and this method gives back 0 hits.

Val Over a year ago

Updated my answer

SD. Over a year ago

Thanks! Is there a way to combine terms with match (analysed and non-analysed search)? Something like title: ['title1', 'title2', 'title3'] AND author: 'myAuthor'?

Val Over a year ago

Yes, though, this would better fit in a different question so as not to mix different concepts together.

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