官方文档: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/5.6/java-rest-high-search.html
The SearchRequest
is used for any operation that has to do with searching documents, aggregations, suggestions and also offers ways of requesting highlighting on the resulting documents.
In its most basic form, we can add a query to the request:
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest(); SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); searchSourceBuilder.query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery()); searchRequest.source(searchSourceBuilder);
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Optional argumentsedit
Let’s first look at some of the optional arguments of a SearchRequest
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SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest("posts"); searchRequest.types("doc");
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Limits the request to a type |
There are a couple of other interesting optional parameters:
searchRequest.routing("routing");
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searchRequest.indicesOptions(IndicesOptions.lenientExpandOpen());
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searchRequest.preference("_local");
Use the preference parameter e.g. to execute the search to prefer local shards. The default is to randomize across shards. |
Using the SearchSourceBuilderedit
Most options controlling the search behavior can be set on the SearchSourceBuilder
, which contains more or less the equivalent of the options in the search request body of the Rest API.
Here are a few examples of some common options:
SearchSourceBuilder sourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); sourceBuilder.query(QueryBuilders.termQuery("user", "kimchy")); sourceBuilder.from(0); sourceBuilder.size(5); sourceBuilder.timeout(new TimeValue(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
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Set an optional timeout that controls how long the search is allowed to take. |
After this, the SearchSourceBuilder
only needs to be added to the SearchRequest
:
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest(); searchRequest.source(sourceBuilder);
Building queriesedit
Search queries are created using QueryBuilder
objects. A QueryBuilder
exists for every search query type supported by Elasticsearch’s Query DSL.
A QueryBuilder
can be created using its constructor:
MatchQueryBuilder matchQueryBuilder = new MatchQueryBuilder("user", "kimchy");
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Once created, the QueryBuilder
object provides methods to configure the options of the search query it creates:
matchQueryBuilder.fuzziness(Fuzziness.AUTO); matchQueryBuilder.prefixLength(3); matchQueryBuilder.maxExpansions(10);
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Set the prefix length option on the match query |
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Set the max expansion options to control the fuzzy process of the query |
QueryBuilder
objects can also be created using the QueryBuilders
utility class. This class provides helper methods that can be used to create QueryBuilder
objects using a fluent programming style:
QueryBuilder matchQueryBuilder = QueryBuilders.matchQuery("user", "kimchy") .fuzziness(Fuzziness.AUTO) .prefixLength(3) .maxExpansions(10);
Whatever the method used to create it, the QueryBuilder
object must be added to the SearchSourceBuilder
as follows:
searchSourceBuilder.query(matchQueryBuilder);
The Building Queries page gives a list of all available search queries with their corresponding QueryBuilder
objects and QueryBuilders
helper methods.
Specifying Sortingedit
The SearchSourceBuilder
allows to add one or more SortBuilder
instances. There are four special implementations (Field-, Score-, GeoDistance- and ScriptSortBuilder).
sourceBuilder.sort(new ScoreSortBuilder().order(SortOrder.DESC)); sourceBuilder.sort(new FieldSortBuilder("_uid").order(SortOrder.ASC));
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Source filteringedit
By default, search requests return the contents of the document _source
but like in the Rest API you can overwrite this behavior. For example, you can turn off _source
retrieval completely:
sourceBuilder.fetchSource(false);
The method also accepts an array of one or more wildcard patterns to control which fields get included or excluded in a more fine grained way:
String[] includeFields = new String[] {"title", "user", "innerObject.*"}; String[] excludeFields = new String[] {"_type"}; sourceBuilder.fetchSource(includeFields, excludeFields);
Requesting Highlightingedit
Highlighting search results can be achieved by setting a HighlightBuilder
on theSearchSourceBuilder
. Different highlighting behaviour can be defined for each fields by adding one or more HighlightBuilder.Field
instances to a HighlightBuilder
.
SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); HighlightBuilder highlightBuilder = new HighlightBuilder(); HighlightBuilder.Field highlightTitle = new HighlightBuilder.Field("title"); highlightTitle.highlighterType("unified"); highlightBuilder.field(highlightTitle); HighlightBuilder.Field highlightUser = new HighlightBuilder.Field("user"); highlightBuilder.field(highlightUser); searchSourceBuilder.highlighter(highlightBuilder);
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Add the field highlighter to the highlight builder |
There are many options which are explained in detail in the Rest API documentation. The Rest API parameters (e.g. pre_tags
) are usually changed by setters with a similar name (e.g. #preTags(String ...)
).
Highlighted text fragments can later be retrieved from the SearchResponse
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Requesting Aggregationsedit
Aggregations can be added to the search by first creating the appropriate AggregationBuilder
and then setting it on the SearchSourceBuilder
. In the following example we create a terms
aggregation on company names with a sub-aggregation on the average age of employees in the company:
SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); TermsAggregationBuilder aggregation = AggregationBuilders.terms("by_company") .field("company.keyword"); aggregation.subAggregation(AggregationBuilders.avg("average_age") .field("age")); searchSourceBuilder.aggregation(aggregation);
The Building Aggregations page gives a list of all available aggregations with their corresponding AggregationBuilder
objects and AggregationBuilders
helper methods.
We will later see how to access aggregations in the SearchResponse
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Requesting Suggestionsedit
To add Suggestions to the search request, use one of the SuggestionBuilder
implementations that are easily accessible from the SuggestBuilders
factory class. Suggestion builders need to be added to the top level SuggestBuilder
, which itself can be set on the SearchSourceBuilder
.
SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); SuggestionBuilder termSuggestionBuilder = SuggestBuilders.termSuggestion("user").text("kmichy"); SuggestBuilder suggestBuilder = new SuggestBuilder(); suggestBuilder.addSuggestion("suggest_user", termSuggestionBuilder); searchSourceBuilder.suggest(suggestBuilder);
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Adds the suggestion builder and names it |
We will later see how to retrieve suggestions from the SearchResponse
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Profiling Queries and Aggregationsedit
The Profile API can be used to profile the execution of queries and aggregations for a specific search request. in order to use it, the profile flag must be set to true on the SearchSourceBuilder
:
SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder(); searchSourceBuilder.profile(true);
Once the SearchRequest
is executed the corresponding SearchResponse
will contain the profiling results.
When executing a SearchRequest
in the following manner, the client waits for the SearchResponse
to be returned before continuing with code execution:
SearchResponse searchResponse = client.search(searchRequest);
Executing a SearchRequest
can also be done in an asynchronous fashion so that the client can return directly. Users need to specify how the response or potential failures will be handled by passing in appropriate listeners:
client.searchAsync(searchRequest, new ActionListener() { @Override public void onResponse(SearchResponse searchResponse) { } @Override public void onFailure(Exception e) { } });
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The SearchResponse
that is returned by executing the search provides details about the search execution itself as well as access to the documents returned. First, there is useful information about the request execution itself, like the HTTP status code, execution time or wether the request terminated early or timed out:
RestStatus status = searchResponse.status(); TimeValue took = searchResponse.getTook(); Boolean terminatedEarly = searchResponse.isTerminatedEarly(); boolean timedOut = searchResponse.isTimedOut();
Second, the response also provides information about the execution on the shard level by offering statistics about the total number of shards that were affected by the search, and the successful vs. unsuccessful shards. Possible failures can also be handled by iterating over an array offShardSearchFailures
like in the following example:
int totalShards = searchResponse.getTotalShards(); int successfulShards = searchResponse.getSuccessfulShards(); int failedShards = searchResponse.getFailedShards(); for (ShardSearchFailure failure : searchResponse.getShardFailures()) { // failures should be handled here }
Retrieving SearchHitsedit
To get access to the returned documents, we need to first get the SearchHits
contained in the response:
SearchHits hits = searchResponse.getHits();
The SearchHits
provides global information about all hits, like total number of hits or the maximum score:
long totalHits = hits.getTotalHits(); float maxScore = hits.getMaxScore();
Nested inside the SearchHits
are the individual search results that can be iterated over:
SearchHit[] searchHits = hits.getHits(); for (SearchHit hit : searchHits) { // do something with the SearchHit }
The SearchHit
provides access to basic information like index, type, docId and score of each search hit:
String index = hit.getIndex(); String type = hit.getType(); String id = hit.getId(); float score = hit.getScore();
Furthermore, it lets you get back the document source, either as a simple JSON-String or as a map of key/value pairs. In this map, regular fields are keyed by the field name and contain the field value. Multi-valued fields are returned as lists of objects, nested objects as another key/value map. These cases need to be cast accordingly:
String sourceAsString = hit.getSourceAsString(); MapsourceAsMap = hit.getSourceAsMap(); String documentTitle = (String) sourceAsMap.get("title"); List
Retrieving Highlightingedit
If requested, highlighted text fragments can be retrieved from each SearchHit
in the result. The hit object offers access to a map of field names to HighlightField
instances, each of which contains one or many highlighted text fragments:
SearchHits hits = searchResponse.getHits(); for (SearchHit hit : hits.getHits()) { MaphighlightFields = hit.getHighlightFields(); HighlightField highlight = highlightFields.get("title"); Text[] fragments = highlight.fragments(); String fragmentString = fragments[0].string(); }
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Retrieving Aggregationsedit
Aggregations can be retrieved from the SearchResponse
by first getting the root of the aggregation tree, the Aggregations
object, and then getting the aggregation by name.
Aggregations aggregations = searchResponse.getAggregations(); Terms byCompanyAggregation = aggregations.get("by_company"); Bucket elasticBucket = byCompanyAggregation.getBucketByKey("Elastic"); Avg averageAge = elasticBucket.getAggregations().get("average_age"); double avg = averageAge.getValue();
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Note that if you access aggregations by name, you need to specify the aggregation interface according to the type of aggregation you requested, otherwise a ClassCastException
will be thrown:
Range range = aggregations.get("by_company");
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It is also possible to access all aggregations as a map that is keyed by the aggregation name. In this case, the cast to the proper aggregation interface needs to happen explicitly:
MapaggregationMap = aggregations.getAsMap(); Terms companyAggregation = (Terms) aggregationMap.get("by_company");
There are also getters that return all top level aggregations as a list:
ListaggregationList = aggregations.asList();
And last but not least you can iterate over all aggregations and then e.g. decide how to further process them based on their type:
for (Aggregation agg : aggregations) { String type = agg.getType(); if (type.equals(TermsAggregationBuilder.NAME)) { Bucket elasticBucket = ((Terms) agg).getBucketByKey("Elastic"); long numberOfDocs = elasticBucket.getDocCount(); } }
Retrieving Suggestionsedit
To get back the suggestions from a SearchResponse
, use the Suggest
object as an entry point and then retrieve the nested suggestion objects:
Suggest suggest = searchResponse.getSuggest(); TermSuggestion termSuggestion = suggest.getSuggestion("suggest_user"); for (TermSuggestion.Entry entry : termSuggestion.getEntries()) { for (TermSuggestion.Entry.Option option : entry) { String suggestText = option.getText().string(); } }
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Retrieving Profiling Resultsedit
Profiling results are retrieved from a SearchResponse
using the getProfileResults()
method. This method returns a Map
containing a ProfileShardResult
object for every shard involved in theSearchRequest
execution. ProfileShardResult
are stored in the Map
using a key that uniquely identifies the shard the profile result corresponds to.
Here is a sample code that shows how to iterate over all the profiling results of every shard:
MapprofilingResults = searchResponse.getProfileResults(); for (Map.Entry profilingResult : profilingResults.entrySet()) { String key = profilingResult.getKey(); ProfileShardResult profileShardResult = profilingResult.getValue(); }
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Profiling results can be retrieved by shard’s key if the key is known, otherwise it might be simpler to iterate over all the profiling results |
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The ProfileShardResult
object itself contains one or more query profile results, one for each query executed against the underlying Lucene index:
ListqueryProfileShardResults = profileShardResult.getQueryProfileResults(); for (QueryProfileShardResult queryProfileResult : queryProfileShardResults) { }
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Each QueryProfileShardResult
gives access to the detailed query tree execution, returned as a list of ProfileResult
objects:
for (ProfileResult profileResult : queryProfileResult.getQueryResults()) { String queryName = profileResult.getQueryName(); long queryTimeInMillis = profileResult.getTime(); ListprofiledChildren = profileResult.getProfiledChildren(); }
Iterate over the profile results |
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Retrieve the name of the Lucene query |
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Retrieve the time in millis spent executing the Lucene query |
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Retrieve the profile results for the sub-queries (if any) |
The Rest API documentation contains more information about Profiling Queries with a description of the query profiling information
The QueryProfileShardResult
also gives access to the profiling information for the Lucene collectors:
CollectorResult collectorResult = queryProfileResult.getCollectorResult(); String collectorName = collectorResult.getName(); Long collectorTimeInMillis = collectorResult.getTime(); ListprofiledChildren = collectorResult.getProfiledChildren();
Retrieve the profiling result of the Lucene collector |
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Retrieve the name of the Lucene collector |
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Retrieve the time in millis spent executing the Lucene collector |
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Retrieve the profile results for the sub-collectors (if any) |
The Rest API documentation contains more information about profiling information for Lucene collectors.
In a very similar manner to the query tree execution, the QueryProfileShardResult
objects gives access to the detailed aggregations tree execution:
AggregationProfileShardResult aggsProfileResults = profileShardResult.getAggregationProfileResults(); for (ProfileResult profileResult : aggsProfileResults.getProfileResults()) { String aggName = profileResult.getQueryName(); long aggTimeInMillis = profileResult.getTime(); ListprofiledChildren = profileResult.getProfiledChildren(); }
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Iterate over the aggregation profile results |
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Retrieve the type of the aggregation (corresponds to Java class used to execute the aggregation) |
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Retrieve the time in millis spent executing the Lucene collector |
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Retrieve the profile results for the sub-aggregations (if any) |
The Rest API documentation contains more information about Profiling Aggregations