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Elasticsearch 7 Quick Start Guide
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Elasticsearch 7 Quick Start Guide

by Anurag Srivastava, Douglas Miller
October 2019
Beginner
186 pages
5h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Count API

The count API executes a query and retrieves the number of matches within that query. The query can be defined using a query string as a parameter or using Query DSL:

GET /facebook/_count{  "query": {    "term": {      "user": "cactus_flower"    }  }}

It can be applied to multiple indices. The request parameters can be any of the following:

  • df: The default field to be used.
  • analyzer: The name of the analyzer that's used to analyze the query string.
  • default_operator: The default operator to be used. The default is OR and can be set to AND.
  • lenient: Ignores format-based failures. It defaults to false.
  • analyze_wildcard: Indicates whether a wildcard and prefix queries are to be analyzed. The default is false.
  • terminate_after: Will retrieve whether ...
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ISBN: 9781789803327