Matching all the documents
One of the most used queries, usually in conjunction with a filter, is the match all
query. This kind of query allows you to return all the documents.
Getting ready
You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and an index populated with the script chapter_05/populate_query.sh
, available in the code bundle for this book.
How to do it...
In order to execute a match_all
query, perform the following steps:
From the command line, execute the query:
curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-type/_search?pretty=true' -d '{"query":{"match_all":{}}}'
The following result should be returned by ElasticSearch if everything works all right:
{ "took" : 52, "timed_out" : false, "_shards" : { "total" : 5, "successful" : 5, "failed" : 0 }, "hits" : { "total" : 3, "max_score" : 1.0, "hits" : [{ "_index" : "test-index", "_type" : "test-type", "_id" : "1", "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {"position": 1, "parsedtext": "Joe Testere...