{ "explain": { "documentation": "http://elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/explain/", "methods": ["GET", "POST"], "url": { "path": "/{index}/{type}/{id}/_explain", "paths": ["/{index}/{type}/{id}/_explain"], "parts": { "id": { "type" : "string", "required" : true, "description" : "The document ID" }, "index": { "type" : "string", "required" : true, "description" : "The name of the index" }, "type": { "type" : "string", "required" : true, "description" : "The type of the document" } }, "params": { "analyze_wildcard": { "type" : "boolean", "description" : "Specify whether wildcards and prefix queries in the query string query should be analyzed (default: false)" }, "analyzer": { "type" : "string", "description" : "The analyzer for the query string query" }, "default_operator": { "type" : "enum", "options" : ["AND","OR"], "default" : "OR", "description" : "The default operator for query string query (AND or OR)" }, "df": { "type" : "string", "description" : "The default field for query string query (default: _all)" }, "fields": { "type": "list", "description" : "A comma-separated list of fields to return in the response" }, "id": { "type" : "string", "description" : "The document ID" }, "lenient": { "type" : "boolean", "description" : "Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a numeric field) should be ignored" }, "lowercase_expanded_terms": { "type" : "boolean", "description" : "Specify whether query terms should be lowercased" }, "parent": { "type" : "string", "description" : "The ID of the parent document" }, "preference": { "type" : "string", "description" : "Specify the shards the operation should be performed on (default: random shard)" }, "q": { "type" : "string", "description" : "Query in the Lucene query string syntax" }, "routing": { "type" : "string", "description" : "Specific routing value" }, "source": { "type" : "string", "description" : "The URL-encoded query definition (instead of using the request body)" } } }, "body": { "required" : true, "description" : "The query definition using the Query DSL" } } }