# Right tool for the job? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 11, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030 "2016-04-11T19:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dom2497](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dom2497](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dom2497)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030/1 "2016-04-11T19:05:56Z")
Hi gang, my first time posting so hopefully I am in the right place. I am working on a little project mainly to get to grips with Elastic Search and I have hit a stumbling block and I was looking for some advice. I am starting to ask myself am I using the right tool for the job as I cannot seem to find a way of solving the problem - however this could just be due to my inexperience. Anyway, here is the problem I have.... So I have a document which contains a array of objects which have a bunch of properties. I would like to be able to chuck a list of terms at ES and it returns any documents whose inner array property matches. The next bit is the bit I am getting stuck on, I want to filter the documents so that only documents whose array is fully matched the search terms are returned. Its doesnt matter if the documents array contents is a subset of the search terms but all of the arrays contents must be matched. Hope I have managed to describe that well enough! As a example: I have a person document with some properties and a inner array of interests which also have a load of properties... Person Name Age Sex Interests Name (property of a interest) Category (property of a interest) Some other property (property of a interest) another property (property of a interest) So say I have a guy called Bob, he likes squash, fishing and tennis. And I have another guy called Fred, he likes squash, fishing, tennis and football. And finally I have a guy called Jim, he likes fishing and tennis. Now if I search for fishing, tennis and squash I want Bob and Jim to be returned because everything in their array matched the search terms even though Jim's was only a subset. Fred does not get returned because he likes foodball which wasent in the search terms. Could anyone help or point me in the right direction of how I can achieve this, I have looked into scripted filteres however I cannot seem to find enough detail to achieve the desired behavior. Thanks Dom ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030/2 "2016-04-11T19:28:08Z")
This comes up from time to time. [Matching by array elements](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/matching-by-array-elements/39530) has a pretty good discussion on it. ---
**Author:** ![dom2497](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dom2497](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dom2497)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030/3 "2016-04-12T09:38:22Z")
Thanks, I will have a read 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dom2497](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dom2497](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dom2497)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030/4 "2016-04-12T10:31:06Z")
I have had a read through the discussion there and it gives me some really good info. I guess the problems that I face are that the array contents are not enumerated values as such - the example I have given above is more a representation of what I have trying to solve. I have added a field to the person which is a interests count, so for bob this would be 3 and for Jim it would be 2. I also went down a avenue of tweaking the scoring so that the score for each document was effectively how many matches in the array the the document hit in relation to the search query. I was hoping I could then use this in the filter script, but I cant find a way of getting hold of a documents score value in the filter script context? If I can get that I can solve this. So distilling this down a bit to one simple question - is there a way of getting hold of a documents score value in the filter script context? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-tool-for-the-job/47030/5 "2017-07-05T23:00:15Z")