Mapping for lists and searching within them?

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Hi,
I have an index in ES where one of the fields (say "tags") in the document
is actually a list. The way I index is roughly as below -

            List<String> customActionList = new ArrayList<String>();

            customActionList.add("tag1");
            customActionList.add("tag2");
            XContentBuilder xcb = jsonBuilder().startObject();
            xcb = xcb.field("tag", customActionList);
            xcb = xcb.endObject();
            IndexResponse indexResponse =

irb.setSource(xcb).execute().actionGet();

but in the mapping, i dont see it as a list. it shows as a string. is that
fine?

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200///_mapping'
{:{"properties":{..."tags":{"type":"string"}...}

Assuming this is correct, how do i search for all documents which have a
tag, say "my_tag" in its "tags" list? I am not able to find the
documentation for this kind of search.

thanks

2

Yes, this is fine. You can search it the same way you search for fields
with a single value. To find all documents which have a tag "my_tag", just
search for tags:mytag.

It might be also useful to make this field not_analyzed to avoid issues
with tags that contain spaces and special characters.

On Monday, May 14, 2012 5:38:59 PM UTC-4, T Vinod Gupta wrote:

Hi,
I have an index in ES where one of the fields (say "tags") in the document
is actually a list. The way I index is roughly as below -

            List<String> customActionList = new ArrayList<String>();   
         
            customActionList.add("tag1");
            customActionList.add("tag2");
            XContentBuilder xcb = jsonBuilder().startObject();
            xcb = xcb.field("tag", customActionList);
            xcb = xcb.endObject();
            IndexResponse indexResponse =

irb.setSource(xcb).execute().actionGet();

but in the mapping, i dont see it as a list. it shows as a string. is that
fine?

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200///_mapping'
{:{"properties":{..."tags":{"type":"string"}...}

Assuming this is correct, how do i search for all documents which have a
tag, say "my_tag" in its "tags" list? I am not able to find the
documentation for this kind of search.

thanks