# Issue iterating over the suggestions included in query response
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-iterating-over-the-suggestions-included-in-query-response/13959
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-iterating-over-the-suggestions-included-in-query-response/13959 "2013-10-15T23:37:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Soni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Soni)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-iterating-over-the-suggestions-included-in-query-response/13959/1 "2013-10-15T23:37:59Z")
Hi everyone - I am using a combination of term/phrase/completion as part of
my search query. However I am having some issues trying to iterate over the
list of suggestions returned.
I generate the "suggestion id" when I create the request object. Now when I
am try to parse the list of suggestions retrieved, I have no way to iterate
over the list of suggestions returned or get all of them as Map or any
other mechanism. I use SearchResponse#getSuggest()#iterator() but it uses
generics and it assume that I already know all the suggestions that I have
entered in the request.
My application server is stateless and I do not intend to store the
suggestion ids on the server while my request is getting processed. so
overall I am stuck and looking for a generic way to iterate over the
suggestions from the query response.
public void doMapping(SearchResponse response) {
Suggest suggest = response.getSuggest();
```
//Option 1:
suggest.getSuggestion(*NAME*); //where do I get the name from, given
```
that I am not storing the state on my server when creating the request
```
//Option 2
Iterator<*what should I specify here*> iter = suggest.iterator();
//Preferred way
Iterator iter = suggest.iterator();
*//Then iterate over and typecast each object as necessary
```
-
}
-Amit.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-iterating-over-the-suggestions-included-in-query-response/13959/2 "2013-10-16T07:52:13Z")
Hey,
using suggest.iterator() and then checking/casting if it is a
PhraseSuggestion/TermSuggestion/CompletionSuggestion while running through
the iterator, makes most sense from what I read so far.
Also if you only need to access get options and their text, there might not
be any need for you to cast into the specific suggestion implementation.
--Alex
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Amit Soni [amitsoni29@gmail.com](mailto:amitsoni29@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi everyone - I am using a combination of term/phrase/completion as part
> of my search query. However I am having some issues trying to iterate over
> the list of suggestions returned.
>
> I generate the "suggestion id" when I create the request object. Now when
> I am try to parse the list of suggestions retrieved, I have no way to
> iterate over the list of suggestions returned or get all of them as Map or
> any other mechanism. I use SearchResponse#getSuggest()#iterator() but it
> uses generics and it assume that I already know all the suggestions that I
> have entered in the request.
>
> My application server is stateless and I do not intend to store the
> suggestion ids on the server while my request is getting processed. so
> overall I am stuck and looking for a generic way to iterate over the
> suggestions from the query response.
>
> public void doMapping(SearchResponse response) {
> Suggest suggest = response.getSuggest();
>
> ```
> //Option 1:
> suggest.getSuggestion(*NAME*); //where do I get the name from, given
>
> ```
>
> that I am not storing the state on my server when creating the request
>
> ```
> //Option 2
> Iterator<*what should I specify here*> iter = suggest.iterator();
>
> //Preferred way
> Iterator iter = suggest.iterator();
> *//Then iterate over and typecast each object as necessary
>
> ```
>
> -
>
> }
>
> -Amit.
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-iterating-over-the-suggestions-included-in-query-response/13959/3 "2017-07-06T02:12:15Z")