elasticsearch/docs/java-api/query-dsl/percolate-query.asciidoc

[[java-query-percolate-query]]
==== Percolate Query

See:
 * {ref}/query-dsl-percolate-query.html[Percolate Query]


[source,java]
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Settings settings = Settings.builder().put("cluster.name", "elasticsearch").build();
TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings);
client.addTransportAddress(new TransportAddress(new InetSocketAddress(InetAddresses.forString("127.0.0.1"), 9300)));
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Before the `percolate` query can be used an `percolator` mapping should be added and
a document containing a percolator query should be indexed:

[source,java]
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// create an index with a percolator field with the name 'query':
client.admin().indices().prepareCreate("myIndexName")
                        .addMapping("query", "query", "type=percolator")
                        .addMapping("docs", "content", "type=text")
                        .get();

//This is the query we're registering in the percolator
QueryBuilder qb = termQuery("content", "amazing");

//Index the query = register it in the percolator
client.prepareIndex("myIndexName", "query", "myDesignatedQueryName")
    .setSource(jsonBuilder()
        .startObject()
            .field("query", qb) // Register the query
        .endObject())
    .setRefreshPolicy(RefreshPolicy.IMMEDIATE) // Needed when the query shall be available immediately
    .get();
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This indexes the above term query under the name
*myDesignatedQueryName*.

In order to check a document against the registered queries, use this
code:

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//Build a document to check against the percolator
XContentBuilder docBuilder = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject();
docBuilder.field("content", "This is amazing!");
docBuilder.endObject(); //End of the JSON root object

PercolateQueryBuilder percolateQuery = new PercolateQueryBuilder("query", "docs", BytesReference.bytes(docBuilder));

// Percolate, by executing the percolator query in the query dsl:
SearchResponse response = client().prepareSearch("myIndexName")
        .setQuery(percolateQuery))
        .get();
//Iterate over the results
for(SearchHit hit : response.getHits()) {
    // Percolator queries as hit
}
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