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Does Elasticsearch accept 1 or 0 for searching on boolean field?

this is part of my elasticsearch query:

 {
    "match": {
        "value": {
            "query": "1",
        }
    }
}

value is a boolean field in my index, does elasticsearch accept 1 as true and 0 as false in search on the boolean field?

Solution

  • as specified in the doc ES accept true/"true"/false/"false" as boolean values.

    Other values like 0/1 will throw error in recent versions

    error: failed to create query: Can't parse boolean value 1, expected [true] or [false]

    NB: you should use a term query to filter in boolean field