I am using ES for my Laravel app, and I need to do a search query that only contains filters and no "text search" but I am not sure on how to write it.
Must I use match_all eg:
$query = [
'filtered' => [
'query' => [
'match_all' => []
],
'filter'=> [
'bool' => [
'must' => [
[ 'range' => [
'price' => [
'lte' => 9000
]
]
],
],
]
],
],
];
Or like this:
$query = [
'filtered' => [
'filter'=> [
'bool' => [
'must' => [
[ 'range' => [
'price' => [
'lte' => 9000
]
]
],
],
]
],
],
];
What I want is to only use a filtered bool query without text search.
In fact, if you don't specify the query
part in your filtered query, a match_all query is used by default. Quoting the doc :
If a query is not specified, it defaults to the match_all query. This means that the filtered query can be used to wrap just a filter, so that it can be used wherever a query is expected.
Your second query should do the job : filters must be wrapped either in filtered
(doc) or constant_score
(doc) queries to be used.
If the scoring part isn't useful for you, you can stick to the filtered
query.
Last thing : you don't have to nest your filter in a bool
filter, unless you want to combine it with other(s) filter(s). In your demo case, you can write directly :
$query = [
'filtered' => [
'filter'=> [
'range' => [
'price' => [
'lte' => 9000
]
]
]
]
];
Hope this will be helpful :)
It's actually exactly the same thing since if a query is not specified in the clause it defaults to using the match_all query.
While in query context, if you need to use a filter without a query (for instance, to match all emails in the inbox), you can just omit the query:
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"filter": { "term": { "folder": "inbox" }}
}
}
}
If a query is not specified it defaults to using the match_all query, so the preceding query is equivalent to the following:
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": { "match_all": {}},
"filter": { "term": { "folder": "inbox" }}
}
}
}
Check here the official documentation: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_combining_queries_with_filters.html