Confused about search/count queries

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}'

works fine but if instead of _search I use _count, it gives me an
exception.

"QueryParsingException[[asset] No query registered for [query]]"

If I change the request body, however, to:

 '{
      "query_string" : {
          "query" :"continent:EU"
      }
 }'

_count works.

What am I missing?

Only that the _search and _count APIs are different. The search API
takes various parameters, so you have to specify which is the query with
a parameter called "query".

The count API just takes a query, so the whole request body IS the
query.

clint

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