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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

Mapping a multifield


Often, a field must be processed with several core types or in different ways. For example, a string field must be processed as analyzed for search and as not_analyzed for sorting. To do this, we need to define a multifield.

Multifield is a very powerful feature of mapping, because it allows the use of the same field in different ways.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

To define a multifield we need to do the following:

  1. Use multi_field as type.

  2. Define a dictionary containing the subfields called fields. The subfield with the same name of parent field is the default one.

If we consider the item of our order example, we can index the name as multi_field as shown in the following code:

"name": {
  "type": "multi_field",
  "fields": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "index": "not_analyzed"
    },
  "tk": {
    "type": "string",
    "index": "analyzed"
  },
  "code": {
    "type": "string",
    "index": "analyzed",
    "analyzer":...