Mastering Elasticsearch - Second Edition

Controlling multimatching

Until Elasticsearch 1.1, we had limited control over the multi_match query. Of course, we had the possibility to specify the fields we want our query to be run against; we could use disjunction max queries (by setting the use_dis_max property to true). Finally, we could inform Elasticsearch about the importance of each field by using boosting. Our example query run against multiple fields could look as follows:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/library/_search?pretty' -d '{
 "query" : {
  "multi_match" : {
   "query" : "complete conan doyle",
   "fields" : [ "title^20", "author^10", "characters" ]
  }
 }
}'

A simple query that will match documents having given tokens in any of the mentioned fields. In addition to that required query, the ...