elasticsearch/docs/reference/search.asciidoc

[[search]]
= Search APIs

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== Multiple Indices

All search APIs support execution across multiple indices, using simple
`test1,test2,test3` notation (or `_all` for all indices). It also
support wildcards, for example: `test*`, and the ability to "add" (`+`)
and "remove" (`-`), for example: `+test*,-test3`.

All multi indices API support the `ignore_indices` option. Setting it to
`missing` will cause indices that do not exists to be ignored from the
execution. By default, when its not set, the request will fail. 

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== Routing

When executing a search, it will be broadcasted to all the index/indices
shards (round robin between replicas). Which shards will be searched on
can be controlled by providing the `routing` parameter. For example,
when indexing tweets, the routing value can be the user name:

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$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet?routing=kimchy' -d '{
    "user" : "kimchy",
    "postDate" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message" : "trying out Elastic Search"
}
'
--------------------------------------------------

In such a case, if we want to search only on the tweets for a specific
user, we can specify it as the routing, resulting in the search hitting
only the relevant shard:

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$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search?routing=kimchy' -d '{
    "query": {
        "filtered" : {
            "query" : {
                "query_string" : {
                    "query" : "some query string here"
                }
            },
            "filter" : {
                "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" }
            }
        }
    }
}
'
--------------------------------------------------

The routing parameter can be multi valued represented as a comma
separated string. This will result in hitting the relevant shards where
the routing values match to.

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== Stats Groups

A search can be associated with stats groups, which maintains a
statistics aggregation per group. It can later be retrieved using the
<<indices-stats,indices stats>> API
specifically. For example, here is a search body request that associate
the request with two different groups:

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{
    "query" : {
        "match_all" : {}
    },
    "stats" : ["group1", "group2"]
}
--------------------------------------------------

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include::search/uri-request.asciidoc[]

include::search/request-body.asciidoc[]

include::search/facets.asciidoc[]

include::search/suggesters.asciidoc[]

include::search/multi-search.asciidoc[]

include::search/count.asciidoc[]

include::search/validate.asciidoc[]

include::search/explain.asciidoc[]

include::search/percolate.asciidoc[]

include::search/more-like-this.asciidoc[]