# Search Query on ES JAVA API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640 "2012-05-10T17:18:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![samCougars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@samCougars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samCougars)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640/1 "2012-05-10T17:18:25Z")

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I'm using ES JAVA API. I am trying to do a search for exact match, like my search query will be Honda "yellow car". So my search result should be return all cars with Honda as a model or cars with "yellow car" (a single phrase) with car description.  
At the moment, I am using BooleanQueryBuilder. How can I add "yellow car" on my queryBuilder?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![drewr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drewr/32/7803_2.png) [@drewr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drewr)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640/2 "2012-05-10T22:59:14Z")

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samCougars wrote:

> I'm using ES JAVA API. I am trying to do a search for exact match, like my  
> search query will be Honda "yellow car". So my search result should be  
> return all cars with Honda as a model or cars with "yellow car" (a single  
> phrase) with car description.  
> At the moment, I am using BooleanQueryBuilder. How can I add "yellow car" on  
> my queryBuilder?

Try something like this:

```
import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.*;

BoolQueryBuilder bool = new boolQuery()
  .should(termQuery("model", "honda"))
  .should(textPhraseQuery("yellow car"));

client().prepareSearch().setQuery(bool).execute().actionGet();

```

-Drew

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**Author:** ![samCougars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@samCougars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samCougars)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640/3 "2012-05-11T17:19:23Z")

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I ended up using "QueryBuilders.textPhrasePrefixQuery("description", "yellow car")" which did exact match on "yellow car"

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-query-on-es-java-api/7640/4 "2017-07-06T03:29:12Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:29am UTC