How can I refine the query to return only number of hits

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Hi Curt,

You need to add "size" : 0.

For example, this should work:
$ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/_search?pretty=true -d '{"query" : {
"match_all" : {}}, "size" : 0}'

On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 9:21:59 AM UTC+3, Curt wrote:

Hi, Thanks for reply. How about using REST API?

On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 1:35:28 PM UTC+8, Zhibin wrote:

Are you querying through REST API or JAVA API?

If using Java, On the SearchRequestBuilder
-setSize(0)
-setSearchType(SearchType.COUNT)

To get the number of hits, use response.hits().getTotalHits(), assuming
response is your SearchResponse

Regards,
Zhibin

On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:08:23 UTC+8, Curt wrote:

I want to write a query to return only number of hits for a specific
query, seemed that _count API doesn't work. is there any solution for this?