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Reputation: 564

Best way to add data elastic search

I am posting data so I can search it later in elastic search.

I am posting it like this:

POST https://localhost:9200/superheroes/_doc/27

body:

{
    "name": "Flash",
    "super_power": "Super Speed"
}

This is automatically stored on a _source object... but I read the _source field itself is not indexed (and thus is not searchable) online, and the entire purpose of this application is quick search by value... like if I wanna know which superheroes have super speed and I write super speed on the search bar.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 932

Answers (1)

Amit
Amit

Reputation: 32386

you are right about the _source field, but if you don't define the mapping for your fields, Elasticsearch generates the default mapping with default param for these fields . You can read more about the mapping param and in your case, if you want field to be searchable it needs to be the part of the inverted index and this is controlled by the index param.

You can override the value of these params by defining your own mapping(recommended otherwise Elasticsearch will guess the field type based on the first data you index in a field).

Hope this helps and clears your doubt, in short if you are not defining your mapping, your text data is searchable by default.

Upvotes: 0

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