I have two indices my_index_1
and my_index_2
. Within these indices, I have the following document types:
my_index_1
:
- people
- organizations
- roles
- skills
my_index_2
:
- products
- services
- patents
- trademarks
- servicemarks
Each of the types has different fields.
My Question: What is the best way to query for the string "abc" in any field of any type, across any one or even both indices?
I don't see anything in the documentation that facilitates such a search. Is there something that might look like:
$ curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' -d '
{
"query": { "match": { *: "abc" } }
}'
Thanks, in advance, for any help you can offer.
Either the query_string
query or the match
query would be what you're looking for.
query_string
will use the special _all
field if none is specified in default_field
, so that would work out well.
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' -d '{
"query": { "query_string": { "query": "abc" } }
}'
And with match
you can just specify the _all
as well.
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' -d '{
"query": { "match": { "_all": "abc" } }
}'
Note that with query_string
you may use wildcards, which you can't with match
UPDATE:
As the _all
field was deprecated in 6.0, the solution is now to implement a custom all field
An alternative to the now deprecated _all field is the multi match query
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"multi_match" : {
"query": "Will Smith",
"fields": [ "important_field^5", "less_important^2", "title", "*_name" ]
}
}
}
Note wildcards in the field names are supported as well as boosting a fields importance with the ^# syntax
As of version 7.3:
If no fields are provided, the multi_match query defaults to the index.query.default_field index settings, which in turn defaults to *. * extracts all fields in the mapping that are eligible to term queries and filters the metadata fields. All extracted fields are then combined to build a query.
Another alternative is the Query string query
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"query_string" : {
"query" : "(new york city) OR (big apple)",
"default_field" : "content"
}
}
}
default_field
(Optional, string) Default field you wish to search if no field is provided in the query string.
Defaults to the index.query.default_field index setting, which has a default value of *.
I think you can use _all for this purpose
Try this
$ curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' -d '
{
"query": { "match": { "_all": "abc" } }
}'
You could also use query_string
as it searches against _all
by default.