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Query from a field of Elasticsearch 7.3 using Java


I have the following code working fine and returning the documents. I want to search based on only one field from the document and shall return the value of that field from all the documents.

        RestHighLevelClient client;

        QueryBuilder matchQueryBuilder = QueryBuilders.queryStringQuery("elon");
        SearchSourceBuilder sourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder();
        sourceBuilder.query(matchQueryBuilder);
        sourceBuilder.from(0);
        sourceBuilder.size(10);
        sourceBuilder.timeout(new TimeValue(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
        SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest(ELASTIC_SEARCH_INDEX);
        searchRequest.source(sourceBuilder);
        SearchResponse searchResponse = client.search(searchRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

I need it to search only Name field and return the value of that field from all documents that returned in this search.

let say, I query Elon and it should response a List<String> "lily Elon musk", "parker Elon ",Elon musk 77" and ignore other fields.

Mapping

{
students: {
mappings: {
properties: {
students: {
properties: {
courseTitle: {
type: "text",
fields: {
keyword: {
type: "keyword",
ignore_above: 256
}
}
},
courseCode: {
type: "text",
fields: {
keyword: {
type: "keyword",
ignore_above: 256
}
}
},
name: {
type: "text",
fields: {
keyword: {
type: "keyword",
ignore_above: 256
}
}
},
courseGrade: {
type: "text",
fields: {
keyword: {
type: "keyword",
ignore_above: 256
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Sample document

students: [
{
courseCode: " HM101",
courseTitle: "ICP",
courseGrade: "A"
},
{
courseCode: " CS101",
courseTitle: "electronice",
courseGrade: "B+"
},
{
name: "elon musk"
}]

Solution

  • It works with

            String[] includeFields = new String[]{"students.name"};
            sourceBuilder.fetchSource(includeFields, null);