Suggester changes
editSuggester changes
editThe completion suggester has undergone a complete rewrite. This means that the
syntax and data structure for fields of type completion have changed, as
have the syntax and response of completion suggester requests. See
completion suggester for details.
For indices created before Elasticsearch 5.0.0, completion fields and the
completion suggester will continue to work as they did in Elasticsearch 2.x.
However, it is not possible to run a completion suggester query across indices
created in 2.x and indices created in 5.x.
It is strongly recommended to reindex indices containing 2.x completion
fields in 5.x to take advantage of the new features listed below.
You will need to change the structure of the completion field values when reindexing.
Completion suggester is near-real time
editPreviously, deleted suggestions could be included in results even after refreshing an index. Now, deletions are visible in near-real time, i.e. as soon as the index has been refreshed. This applies to suggestion entries for both context and completion suggesters.
Completion suggester is document-oriented
editSuggestions are aware of the document they belong to. Now, associated
documents (_source) are returned as part of completion suggestions.
_source meta-field must be enabled, which is the default behavior,
to enable returning _source with suggestions.
Previously, context and completion suggesters supported an index-time
payloads option, which was used to store and return metadata with suggestions.
Now metadata can be stored as part of the the same document as the
suggestion for retrieval at query-time. The support for index-time payloads
has been removed to avoid bloating the in-memory index with suggestion metadata.
Simpler completion indexing
editAs suggestions are document-oriented, suggestion metadata (e.g. output)
should now be specified as a field in the document. The support for specifying
output when indexing suggestion entries has been removed. Now suggestion
result entry’s text is always the un-analyzed value of the suggestion’s
input (same as not specifying output while indexing suggestions in pre-5.0
indices).
Completion mapping with multiple contexts
editThe context option in completion field mapping is now an array to support
multiple named contexts per completion field. Note that this is sugar for
indexing same suggestions under different name with different contexts.
The default option for a named context has been removed. Now querying with
no context against a context-enabled completion field yields results from all
indexed suggestions. Note that performance for match-all-context query
degrades with the number of unique context value for a given completion field.
Completion suggestion with multiple context filtering
editPreviously context option in a suggest request was used for filtering suggestions
by context value. Now, the option has been named to contexts to specify
multiple named context filters. Note that this is not supported by pre-5.0 indices.
Following is the contexts snippet for a suggest query filtered by both color
and location contexts:
"contexts": {
"color": [ {...} ],
"location": [ {...} ]
}