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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

Highlighting results


ElasticSearch performs a good job on finding results also in large text documents. Thus, for searching text in very large blocks it's very useful, but to improve the user experience it is sometimes required to show the abstract part: a small portion of the text that has matched the query. The highlight functionality in ElasticSearch is designed to do this job.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and an index populated with the script available in online code.

How to do it...

For searching and highlighting the results, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. From command line, we can execute a search with a highlight section as follows:

    curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/_search?from=0&size=10' -d '
    {
    "query": {"query_string": {"query": "joe"}}, 
    "highlight": {
    "pre_tags": ["<b>"], 
    "fields": {
    "parsedtext": {"order": "score"}, 
    "name": {"order": "score"}}, 
       "post_tags": ["</b>"]}}'
  2. If everything is all right, the command will...