# Elastic search java client unable to handle scores more than 1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987 "2016-11-04T06:45:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/1 "2016-11-04T06:45:29Z")
I am using elastic search java client with elastic search version 2.3 In one of my queries, the search score come out in the order of 4-5. But elastic search java client is converting all the score above 1 to 1 and therefore I am not getting correct results. What can be done in this case to get the correct result? I don't need the scores but I need to sort the search result in the order of score which is not possible now.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/2 "2016-11-04T07:17:56Z")
Any chance you can share some code?
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/3 "2016-11-04T07:27:34Z")
When I am doing using curl command, I am getting proper results
{
"took" : 105,
"timed\_out" : false,
"\_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 8212,
"max\_score" : 5.198194,
....
But when I use Java client, using the following code. I am getting max score as 1 and the result are not properly sorted.
`searchResponse = client.prepareSearch() .setIndices((String) entitySearchParams.get(INDEX_NAME)) .setTypes(entityTypesArray) .setQuery(queryBuilder) .setFrom(0) .setSize(10) .setFetchSource(include, exclude) .get();`
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/4 "2016-11-04T07:34:25Z")
I am using ngram analyzer and I have around 30,000 documents.
```
"analyzer": {
"twofifteengram": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"twofifteengram_filter"
]
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/5 "2016-11-04T07:58:48Z")
Please format your code using `` icon. It will make your post more readable.
What do you have in `queryBuilder` and `filter`?
What is the exact curl command you are sending?
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/6 "2016-11-04T08:11:15Z")
```
QueryBuilder queryBuilder = new TemplateQueryBuilder(templateInstance);
```
I am using a mustache template
```
Template templateInstance = new Template(
searchQueryParamInstance.getTemplateName(),
ScriptService.ScriptType.INDEXED,
MustacheScriptEngineService.NAME,
null,
searchQueryParamInstance.getParams()
);
```
The curl command I am using is
`curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/indexname/typename/_search/template?pretty' -d@temp.json`
where temp.json contains the following json:
```
{
"template": {
"id": "templateName"
},
"params": {
"param1": "attribute.ngram",
"value1":"firstword secondword thirdword "
}
}
```
Same params and template name is passed in java client as in the curl command
Filter can be removed.
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/7 "2016-11-04T08:13:04Z")
The mustache template is
`"{ \"query\" : { \"bool\" : { \"should\" : [ {{#param1}} {{#value1}} { \"match\" : { \"{{param1}}\" : \"{{value1}}\" } } {{/value1}} {{/param1}} {{#param2}} {{#value2}} , { \"match\" : { \"{{param2}}\" : \"{{value2}}\" } } {{/value2}} {{/param2}}` ...
The same is continued for 10 params and values
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/8 "2016-11-04T08:42:51Z")
Can you print the queryBuilder.toString() or string() (don't recall from the top of my head)?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/9 "2016-11-04T08:44:23Z")
Even better. Don't call get() on the prepareSearch but print its content with toString().
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/10 "2016-11-04T08:56:25Z")
Query builder
```
{
"template" : {
"id" : "templateName",
"lang" : "mustache",
"params" : {
"param1" : "attributesInfo.en-US.xyz.ngram",
"value1" : "Random company name CO., LTD OF"
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/11 "2016-11-04T08:57:34Z")
prepareSearch:
```
{
"from" : 0,
"size" : 5,
"query" : {
"template" : {
"id" : "templateName",
"lang" : "mustache",
"params" : {
"param1" : "attributesInfo.en-US.xyz.ngram",
"value1" : "Random company name CO., LTD OF"
}
}
},
"_source" : {
"includes" : [],
"excludes" : []
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/12 "2016-11-04T09:03:47Z")
Response from curl command
```
{
"took" : 105,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 8212,
"max_score" : 5.198194,
....
```
Response that I am getting from java client:
```
{
"took" : 11,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 8212,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
```
...
As we can see total number of results is same, just the max\_score is 1 in later case. Therefore when we are setting the size as 5 , we are not getting expected result
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/13 "2016-11-05T07:38:19Z")
Can you run again this?
```auto
curl localhost:9200/_search -d '{
"from" : 0,
"size" : 5,
"query" : {
"template" : {
"id" : "templateName",
"lang" : "mustache",
"params" : {
"param1" : "attributesInfo.en-US.xyz.ngram",
"value1" : "Random company name CO., LTD OF"
}
}
},
"_source" : {
"includes" : [],
"excludes" : []
}
}'
```
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/14 "2016-11-07T04:27:12Z")
If I am giving this request, I got the match score as 1 just like the java client
```
{
"took" : 11,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 8212,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
```
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/17 "2016-11-07T11:08:06Z")
I don't understand why the following 2 commands give different results
```
curl localhost:9200/indexname/typename/_search -d '{
"from" : 0,
"size" : 5,
"query" : {
"template" : {
"id" : "templateName",
"lang" : "mustache",
"params" : {
"param1" : "attributesInfo.en-US.xyz.ngram",
"value1" : "Random company name CO., LTD OF"
}
}
},
"_source" : {
"includes" : [],
"excludes" : []
}
}'
```
and
```
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/indexname/typename/_search/template?pretty' -d '
{
"template": {
"id": "templateName"
},
"params": {
"param1" : "attributesInfo.en-US.xyz.ngram",
"value1" : "Random company name CO., LTD OF"
}
}'
```
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### Author:  [@dbanka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbanka)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/18 "2016-11-07T11:12:42Z")
If the method used by me using templateQuerybuilder won't work then what is the best way to use search templates via java client?
I found a method using setTemplate() method but if I use that method , setSize isn't working
```
SearchResponse searchResponse =client.prepareSearch()
.setIndices("new")
.setTypes("sku")
.setTemplate(templateInstance)
.get();
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-java-client-unable-to-handle-scores-more-than-1/64987/19 "2017-07-05T22:06:14Z")