Including a filter with a query string

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What does the JSON query look like that includes a filter with the query string? If I am querying an index and want to filter results that come back with my query string, I tried the following:

GET animals/_search
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "query": "dog"
    },
    "filter": {
      "should" : [
        {"match" : {"color" : "brown"}}  
      ]
    }
  }
}

But I get a message saying:

"error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "parsing_exception",
        "reason": "[query_string] malformed query, expected [END_OBJECT] but found [FIELD_NAME]",
        "line": 6,
        "col": 5
      }
    ],
    "type": "parsing_exception",
    "reason": "[query_string]

Is is possible to include filters with query strings?

Thanks!

2

You absolutely can do this! You want a bool query, like so:

GET animals/_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "query_string": {
            "query": "dog"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "match": {
            "color": "brown"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
3

Thanks!

Also, if I had different fields, is there a way I can add a section to the query to boost specific fields? If I wanted to place an emphasis on color over body type, what would it look like?

Thanks again!