# What can MoreLikeThisRequestBuilder do

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-can-morelikethisrequestbuilder-do/9467>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 25, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-can-morelikethisrequestbuilder-do/9467 "2012-10-25T06:24:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![asoqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@asoqa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asoqa)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-can-morelikethisrequestbuilder-do/9467/1 "2012-10-25T06:24:30Z")

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for example:  
MoreLikeThisRequestBuilder mlt = new MoreLikeThisRequestBuilder(client,  
"twitter", "tweet", "1");  
mlt.setField("user");  
what does this code do? it will search all documents with content in id=1's record according to "user" field?

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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, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-can-morelikethisrequestbuilder-do/9467/2 "2017-07-06T03:07:19Z")

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