# Boost Prefix Text Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-prefix-text-query/4976>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 27, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-prefix-text-query/4976 "2011-07-27T12:15:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-prefix-text-query/4976/1 "2011-07-27T12:15:40Z")

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Hi,

Any Ideas on how I can boost a field in a TextQuery, in a similar way  
to a QueryStringQuery (I'm currently on 16.2):

e.g.

# QueryString

QueryStringQueryBuilder queryString = new  
QueryStringQueryBuilder(query);  
queryString.useDisMax(false);  
queryString.defaultOperator(QueryStringQueryBuilder.Operator.AND);  
queryString.allowLeadingWildcard(true);  
for (SearchFieldAndBoost fieldAndBoost: this.searchFieldsAndBoostSet){  
queryString.field(fieldAndBoost.getSearchField(),  
fieldAndBoost.getBoost());  
}

# TextQuery - ideally the constructor would also take a boost parameter

for (SearchFieldAndBoost fieldAndBoost: this.searchFieldsAndBoostSet){  
TextQueryBuilder textQuery = new  
TextQueryBuilder(fieldAndBoost.getSearchField(),  
startsWithSearchTerm);  
textQuery.type(TextQueryBuilder.Type.PHRASE\_PREFIX);  
boolQueryBuilder.should(textQuery);  
}

Best Regards,

David.

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**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-prefix-text-query/4976/2 "2011-07-27T12:20:40Z")

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Actually, just noticed that ther is a boost method, so that's fine.  
thanks.

On Jul 27, 1:15 pm, davrob2 [davirobe...@gmail.com](mailto:davirobe...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Any Ideas on how I can boost a field in a TextQuery, in a similar way  
> to a QueryStringQuery (I'm currently on 16.2):
> 
> e.g.
> 
> # QueryString
> 
> QueryStringQueryBuilder queryString = new  
> QueryStringQueryBuilder(query);  
> queryString.useDisMax(false);  
> queryString.defaultOperator(QueryStringQueryBuilder.Operator.AND);  
> queryString.allowLeadingWildcard(true);  
> for (SearchFieldAndBoost fieldAndBoost: this.searchFieldsAndBoostSet){  
> queryString.field(fieldAndBoost.getSearchField(),  
> fieldAndBoost.getBoost());
> 
> }
> 
> # TextQuery - ideally the constructor would also take a boost parameter
> 
> for (SearchFieldAndBoost fieldAndBoost: this.searchFieldsAndBoostSet){  
> TextQueryBuilder textQuery = new  
> TextQueryBuilder(fieldAndBoost.getSearchField(),  
> startsWithSearchTerm);  
> textQuery.type(TextQueryBuilder.Type.PHRASE\_PREFIX);  
> boolQueryBuilder.should(textQuery);
> 
> }
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> David.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-prefix-text-query/4976/3 "2017-07-06T03:59:03Z")

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