OpenSearch/docs/reference/search/request-body.asciidoc
Jim Ferenczi aea7660e37 Add search_after parameter in the Search API.
The search_after parameter provides a way to efficiently paginate from one page to the next. This parameter accepts an array of sort values, those values are then used by the searcher to sort the top hits from the first document that is greater to the sort values.
This parameter must be used in conjunction with the sort parameter, it must contain exactly the same number of values than the number of fields to sort on.

NOTE: A field with one unique value per document should be used as the last element of the sort specification. Otherwise the sort order for documents that have the same sort values would be undefined. The recommended way is to use the field `_uuid` which is certain to contain one unique value for each document.

Fixes #8192
2016-01-27 09:42:58 +01:00

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[[search-request-body]]
== Request Body Search
The search request can be executed with a search DSL, which includes the
<<query-dsl,Query DSL>>, within its body. Here is an
example:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search' -d '{
"query" : {
"term" : { "user" : "kimchy" }
}
}
'
--------------------------------------------------
And here is a sample response:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"_shards":{
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits":{
"total" : 1,
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "twitter",
"_type" : "tweet",
"_id" : "1",
"_source" : {
"user" : "kimchy",
"postDate" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
"message" : "trying out Elasticsearch"
}
}
]
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
[float]
=== Parameters
[horizontal]
`timeout`::
A search timeout, bounding the search request to be executed within the
specified time value and bail with the hits accumulated up to that point
when expired. Defaults to no timeout. See <<time-units>>.
`from`::
The starting from index of the hits to return. Defaults to `0`.
`size`::
The number of hits to return. Defaults to `10`. If you do not care about
getting some hits back but only about the number of matches and/or
aggregations, setting the value to `0` will help performance.
`search_type`::
The type of the search operation to perform. Can be
`dfs_query_then_fetch` or `query_then_fetch`.
Defaults to `query_then_fetch`.
See <<search-request-search-type,_Search Type_>> for more.
`request_cache`::
Set to `true` or `false` to enable or disable the caching
of search results for requests where `size` is 0, ie
aggregations and suggestions (no top hits returned).
See <<shard-request-cache>>.
`terminate_after`::
The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard,
upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early. If set, the
response will have a boolean field `terminated_early` to indicate whether
the query execution has actually terminated_early. Defaults to no
terminate_after.
Out of the above, the `search_type` and the `request_cache` must be passed as
query-string parameters. The rest of the search request should be passed
within the body itself. The body content can also be passed as a REST
parameter named `source`.
Both HTTP GET and HTTP POST can be used to execute search with body. Since not
all clients support GET with body, POST is allowed as well.
[float]
=== Fast check for any matching docs
In case we only want to know if there are any documents matching a
specific query, we can set the `size` to `0` to indicate that we are not
interested in the search results. Also we can set `terminate_after` to `1`
to indicate that the query execution can be terminated whenever the first
matching document was found (per shard).
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_search?q=tag:wow&size=0&terminate_after=1'
--------------------------------------------------
The response will not contain any hits as the `size` was set to `0`. The
`hits.total` will be either equal to `0`, indicating that there were no
matching documents, or greater than `0` meaning that there were at least
as many documents matching the query when it was early terminated.
Also if the query was terminated early, the `terminated_early` flag will
be set to `true` in the response.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"took": 3,
"timed_out": false,
"terminated_early": true,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max_score": 0,
"hits": []
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
include::request/query.asciidoc[]
include::request/from-size.asciidoc[]
include::request/sort.asciidoc[]
include::request/source-filtering.asciidoc[]
include::request/fields.asciidoc[]
include::request/script-fields.asciidoc[]
include::request/fielddata-fields.asciidoc[]
include::request/post-filter.asciidoc[]
include::request/highlighting.asciidoc[]
include::request/rescore.asciidoc[]
include::request/search-type.asciidoc[]
include::request/scroll.asciidoc[]
include::request/preference.asciidoc[]
include::request/explain.asciidoc[]
include::request/version.asciidoc[]
include::request/index-boost.asciidoc[]
include::request/min-score.asciidoc[]
include::request/named-queries-and-filters.asciidoc[]
include::request/inner-hits.asciidoc[]
include::request/search-after.asciidoc[]