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Can you parse Elasticsearch "q" querystring parameter to NEST object?

I am building an API in C# with an ElasticSearch backend. I want consumers to be able to pass filters using the "q" querystring parameter. I don't want to simply pass the filter directly to Elasticsearch because I want to do some validation of the query before sending it.

Is there any way to consume a query such as "?q=date:[2012-01-01 TO 2012-12-31]" and convert it to a QueryContainerDescriptor so that I can perform a search using that criteria?

Solution

  • There's nothing to do that in Elasticsearch.Net or NEST, but Foundatio has a project, Foundatio.Parsers, for parsing Lucene query strings that may be of interest.