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Validate API
editValidate API
editThe validate API allows a user to validate a potentially expensive query without executing it. The following example shows how it can be used:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1' -d '{ "user" : "kimchy", "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch" }'
When the query is valid, the response contains valid:true
:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_validate/query?q=user:foo' {"valid":true,"_shards":{"total":1,"successful":1,"failed":0}}
Request Parameters
editWhen executing exists using the query parameter q
, the query passed is
a query string using Lucene query parser. There are additional
parameters that can be passed:
Name | Description |
---|---|
|
The default field to use when no field prefix is defined within the query. |
|
The analyzer name to be used when analyzing the query string. |
|
The default operator to be used, can be |
|
If set to true will cause format based failures (like providing text to a numeric field) to be ignored. Defaults to false. |
|
Should terms be automatically lowercased or
not. Defaults to |
|
Should wildcard and prefix queries be analyzed or
not. Defaults to |
Or, with a request body:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_validate/query' -d '{ "query" : { "filtered" : { "query" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "*:*" } }, "filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" } } } } }' {"valid":true,"_shards":{"total":1,"successful":1,"failed":0}}
The query being sent in the body must be nested in a query
key, same as
the search api works
If the query is invalid, valid
will be false
. Here the query is
invalid because Elasticsearch knows the post_date field should be a date
due to dynamic mapping, and foo does not correctly parse into a date:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_validate/query?q=post_date:foo' {"valid":false,"_shards":{"total":1,"successful":1,"failed":0}}
An explain
parameter can be specified to get more detailed information
about why a query failed:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_validate/query?q=post_date:foo&pretty=true&explain=true' { "valid" : false, "_shards" : { "total" : 1, "successful" : 1, "failed" : 0 }, "explanations" : [ { "index" : "twitter", "valid" : false, "error" : "org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryParsingException: [twitter] Failed to parse; org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException: failed to parse date field [foo], tried both date format [dateOptionalTime], and timestamp number; java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: \"foo\"" } ] }
[1.6.0]
Added in 1.6.0.
When the query is valid, the explanation defaults to the string
representation of that query. With rewrite
set to true
, the explanation
is more detailed showing the actual Lucene query that will be executed.
For Fuzzy Queries:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/imdb/movies/_validate/query?rewrite=true' { "query": { "fuzzy": { "actors": "kyle" } } }
Response:
{ "valid": true, "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "explanations": [ { "index": "imdb", "valid": true, "explanation": "filtered(plot:kyle plot:kylie^0.75 plot:kyne^0.75 plot:lyle^0.75 plot:pyle^0.75)->cache(_type:movies)" } ] }
For More Like This:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/imdb/movies/_validate/query?rewrite=true' { "query": { "more_like_this": { "like": { "_id": "88247" }, "boost_terms": 1 } } }
Response:
{ "valid": true, "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "explanations": [ { "index": "imdb", "valid": true, "explanation": "filtered(((title:terminator^3.71334 plot:future^2.763601 plot:human^2.8415773 plot:sarah^3.4193945 plot:kyle^3.8244398 plot:cyborg^3.9177752 plot:connor^4.040236 plot:reese^4.7133346 ... )~6) -ConstantScore(_uid:movies#88247))->cache(_type:movies)" } ] }
The request is executed on a single shard only, which is randomly selected. The detailed explanation of the query may depend on which shard is being hit, and therefore may vary from one request to another.
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