Plugin dev - callWithRequest multi_match query

Elastic Stack Kibana
1

Hi all,

I'm trying to get started on a Kibana plugin.

I have managed to setup some simple data entry form and display the results in a table. However, I'm trying to perform a multi_match query with callWithRequest, but I don't see what is wrong. Perhaps you have some pointers..

resp = await callWithRequest(req, 'search', {
  index: 'test-index',
  size: 10,
  body: {
    query: {
      match: {
        message: { query }
      }
    }
  }
  }

)

Is working just fine, but now I want to edit the query to perform a multi_match on all fields in the index (Expensive query, I know).

I figured since the 'reqular 'query is:
"query": { "multi_match" : { "query": "searchthis", "fields": [ "*" ] } }

I could rewrite the code to:

resp = await callWithRequest(req, 'search', {
  index: 'test-index',
  size: 10,
  body: {
    query: {
      multi_match: {
        query: { query },
          fields: ["*"]
        }
       }
      }
    }

`
But this is giving an error

{"msg":"[parsing_exception] [multi_match] unknown token [START_OBJECT] after [query], with { line=1 & col=34 }","path":"/test-index/_search","query":{"size":10},"body":"{"query":{"multi_match":{"query":{"query":"abcd"},"fields":["*"]}}}","statusCode":400,"response":"{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"parsing_exception","reason":"[multi_match] unknown token [START_OBJECT] after [query]","line":1,"col":34}],"type":"parsing_exception","reason":"[multi_match] unknown token [START_OBJECT] after [query]","line":1,"col":34},"status":400}"}

I can't seem to figure out why this is not working.. Any tips?

2

This:

will result in:

query: {query: value_of_query_variable}

I believe what you need is:

resp = await callWithRequest(req, 'search', {
  index: 'test-index',
  size: 10,
  body: {
    query: {
      multi_match: {
        query,
        fields: ["*"]
       }
     }
  }
}
3

Thanks! This actually makes sense now as well.

I had put this functionality aside for the time being, but works flawless! Sometimes you just get stuck and dont see what's what.