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Validate API
editValidate API
editThe validate API allows a user to validate a potentially expensive query without executing it. We’ll use the following test data to explain _validate:
PUT twitter/tweet/_bulk?refresh {"index":{"_id":1}} {"user" : "kimchy", "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch"} {"index":{"_id":2}} {"user" : "kimchi", "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:13", "message" : "My username is similar to @kimchy!"}
When sent a valid query:
GET twitter/_validate/query?q=user:foo
The response contains valid:true
:
{"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 wildcard and prefix queries be analyzed or
not. Defaults to |
The query may also be sent in the request body:
GET twitter/tweet/_validate/query { "query" : { "bool" : { "must" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "*:*" } }, "filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" } } } } }
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:
GET 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:
GET twitter/tweet/_validate/query?q=post_date:foo&explain=true
responds with:
{ "valid" : false, "_shards" : { "total" : 1, "successful" : 1, "failed" : 0 }, "explanations" : [ { "index" : "twitter", "valid" : false, "error" : "twitter/IAEc2nIXSSunQA_suI0MLw] QueryShardException[failed to create query:...failed to parse date field [foo]" } ] }
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:
GET twitter/tweet/_validate/query?rewrite=true { "query": { "match": { "user": { "query": "kimchy", "fuzziness": "auto" } } } }
Response:
{ "valid": true, "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "explanations": [ { "index": "twitter", "valid": true, "explanation": "+user:kimchy +user:kimchi^0.75 #(ConstantScore(_type:tweet))^0.0" } ] }
For More Like This:
GET twitter/tweet/_validate/query?rewrite=true { "query": { "more_like_this": { "like": { "_id": "2" }, "boost_terms": 1 } } }
Response:
{ "valid": true, "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "explanations": [ { "index": "twitter", "valid": true, "explanation": "((user: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:tweet#2)) #(ConstantScore(_type:tweet))^0.0" } ] }
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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