# Getting a query into filter context
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994 "2015-11-06T13:56:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Hudson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brian_Hudson)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/1 "2015-11-06T13:56:48Z")
If I have a simple query like:
```
termQuery("name", "Brian")
```
What is the suggested method of getting that query into filter context in Elasticsearch 2.0?
Wrapping it in a boolQuery?
```
boolQuery().filter(termQuery("name", "Brian"))
```
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/2 "2015-11-06T15:06:15Z")
Yep!
(Assuming you want to run it as a filter e.g. no scoring)
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Hudson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brian_Hudson)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/3 "2015-11-06T15:28:09Z")
Great thanks.
Does a top level `boolQuery().filter(someBigCompoundQuery)` put all of the subqueries into filter context or do I need to put the sub-queries into filter context as well?
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/4 "2015-11-06T15:52:15Z")
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand?
If you add queries to the `must` / `must_not` / `should` clauses of a bool, they will be executed as queries. If you add them to the `filter`, they turn into a filtering, non-scoring context.
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Hudson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brian_Hudson)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/5 "2015-11-10T19:56:57Z")
If I have something like
```
boolQuery().filter(boolQuery().must(termQuery("fname", "Brian"))
.must(termQuery("lname", "Hudson"));
```
Are the term queries now in filter context and thus individually eligible for caching?
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/6 "2015-11-11T14:57:53Z")
Ah, I see. Yes, you are correct. When you place those queries in a filter context, they will execute as a filter with no scoring, caching, etc.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-a-query-into-filter-context/33994/7 "2017-07-05T23:39:11Z")