Is it possible to do a text query against a (pre)defined set of fields?

Hi,

I am indexing some large documents in an index. When making full text
queries, I've generally used {"text": {"_all": "some text search"}} to find
all possible results. However, the document contains a few "private" fields
that should be queryable only by a certain user group.

What I was wondering is if there is a possibility to define some kind of
alias for a set of fields (or even better - all fields except the set of
fields) in the mapping definition. I could then do a query {"text":
{"alias_for_public_fields": "some text search"}} while the private fields
would not be searched for. I do not know if this is possible already now?

I know that it's possible to list all fields in the query and leave out the
privates, but as there can be hundreds of fields that should be queryable
but only 2-3 private fields, listing fields explicitly adds significant
overhead to the queries.

Best regards,
Ville

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Ville,

Perhaps: Don't include the private fields in _all. Then a query against
_all would be restricted to the (perhaps hundreds) of "public" fields.

A query that includes the private fields would need to list _all and then
the private fields. But since you have only 2 or 3 private fields, there
shouldn't be much overhead on the query.

Brian

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Hi,

Well - I think I've understood something wrong here. Isn't _all a special
key that includes all indexed fields? Is there possibility to change the
fields included in _all?

Ville

Ville,

Perhaps: Don't include the private fields in _all. Then a query against
_all would be restricted to the (perhaps hundreds) of "public" fields.

A query that includes the private fields would need to list _all and then
the private fields. But since you have only 2 or 3 private fields, there
shouldn't be much overhead on the query.

Brian

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Ville,

By default, the _all field includes all of the indexed field. Then, for
your private fields, explicitly exclude them from the _all field by adding
the following to their properties:

"include_in_all" : false

See the ES guide for more details, Specifically, thishttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-all-field.htmlmight help.

I typically disable the _all field completely to cut down dramatically on
disk space and build times. But everything else in ES has worked like a
charm, so I'm sure this would work for you without too much trouble. Good
luck!

Brian

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