# Modify explain string in elasticsearch plugin
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 14, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506 "2014-05-14T06:36:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Srinivasan\_Ramaswamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srinivasan_Ramaswamy)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506/1 "2014-05-14T06:36:08Z")
Hi
I am overriding the scoring function using a plugin as described in
> **[imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example](https://github.com/imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example)**
>
> elasticsearch-native-script-example - Example of Now Deprecated Native Script Plugin for Elasticsearch
I would like to know how to override the explain string, so that i can add
explanation for all my custom scoring.
Thanks
Srini
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506/2 "2014-05-14T23:28:02Z")
The explain string is basically a JSON formatted string of Lucene's explain
object. I doubt this formatter is pluggable or that you can change the
Explain object.
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Srinivasan Ramaswamy
[ursvasan@gmail.com](mailto:ursvasan@gmail.com)wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am overriding the scoring function using a plugin as described in
>
> [GitHub - imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example: Example of Now Deprecated Native Script Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example)
>
> I would like to know how to override the explain string, so that i can add
> explanation for all my custom scoring.
>
> Thanks
> Srini
>
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### Author:  [@Srinivasan\_Ramaswamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srinivasan_Ramaswamy)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506/3 "2014-05-15T17:14:17Z")
Does the current explain gives details about the function/script in
function score query ? If so how is it achieved ? I would like to add
explanation for my custom scoring so that its easy to investigate. How do
people achieve this typically using elasticsearch ?
Thanks
Srini
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
> The explain string is basically a JSON formatted string of Lucene's
> explain object. I doubt this formatter is pluggable or that you can change
> the Explain object.
>
> --
> Ivan
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Srinivasan Ramaswamy \<[ursvasan@gmail.com](mailto:ursvasan@gmail.com)
>
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am overriding the scoring function using a plugin as described in
> >
> > [GitHub - imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example: Example of Now Deprecated Native Script Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example)
> >
> > I would like to know how to override the explain string, so that i can
> > add explanation for all my custom scoring.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Srini
> >
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506/4 "2014-05-16T20:47:27Z")
I looked into the same issue when I first switched over to using custom
scoring. I did not see a simple solution, so I did not investigate it
further. Hopefully you will be able to find something.
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Srinivasan Ramaswamy
[ursvasan@gmail.com](mailto:ursvasan@gmail.com)wrote:
> Does the current explain gives details about the function/script in
> function score query ? If so how is it achieved ? I would like to add
> explanation for my custom scoring so that its easy to investigate. How do
> people achieve this typically using elasticsearch ?
>
> Thanks
> Srini
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
>
> > The explain string is basically a JSON formatted string of Lucene's
> > explain object. I doubt this formatter is pluggable or that you can change
> > the Explain object.
> >
> > --
> > Ivan
> >
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Srinivasan Ramaswamy \<
> > [ursvasan@gmail.com](mailto:ursvasan@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am overriding the scoring function using a plugin as described in
> > >
> > > [GitHub - imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example: Example of Now Deprecated Native Script Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/imotov/elasticsearch-native-script-example)
> > >
> > > I would like to know how to override the explain string, so that i can
> > > add explanation for all my custom scoring.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Srini
> > >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modify-explain-string-in-elasticsearch-plugin/17506/5 "2017-07-06T01:28:46Z")