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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Executing a facet search


Searching for results is obviously the main activity of a search engine, thus facet is very important because it often helps to complete the results.

Faceting is executed along the search doing analytics on searched results.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and required packages of the Creating a client recipe of this chapter.

The code of this recipe is in the chapter_11/faceting.py and chapter_11/faceting_pyes.py files.

How to do it...

To extend a query with the facet part, you need to define a facet section as we have already seen in Chapter 6, Facets. In the case of the official ElasticSearch client, you can add the facet DSL to the search dictionary to provide facets. We need to perform the following steps:

  1. We need to initialize the client and populate the index as follows:

    import elasticsearch
    from pprint import pprint
    
    es = elasticsearch.Elasticsearch()
    index_name = "my_index"
    type_name = "my_type"
    
    from utils import create_and_add_mapping, populate...