Elasticsearch Concise Query

Elasticsearch Concise Query simplifies the process for querying an Elasticsearch index.

import { buildECQ } from 'elasticsearch-concise-query';

It is also available as a React higher-order component:

import { ECQ } from 'elasticsearch-concise-query';
...
const MyComponent = ({query, results}) => { ... }
export default ECQ(conciseQueries, config)(MyComponent)

Contents

• Basic Example
• Configuration
• Interoperability
  • With elasticsearch.js
  • With ReactiveSearch

Basic Example

See the examples directory for more detailed example usage.

Using esConnect to access indexed Elasticsearch data for use in an application is as easy as passing a simple, single-depth object with search parameters and an optional configuration object into a function:

buildECQ(
  {
    match: { bike_type: 'road' },
    range: { price: { lte: 600, gte: 1000 } },
    enums: { frame: ['carbon', 'aluminum alloy'] },
    multiField: [{ fields: ['description, keywords'], value: 'skinny tires' }]
  },
  {
    index: 'http://path.to/index',
    size: 10,
    required: 4,
    sortBy: { field: 'price', order: 'asc' },
    test: false
  }
);

buildECQ returns an Elasticsearch bool query object:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "match": {
            "bike_type": "road"
          }
        },
        {
          "query": {
            "range": {
              "price": {
                "lte": 600,
                "gte": 1000
              }
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "query_string": {
            "query": "carbon OR aluminum alloy",
            "default_field": "frame",
            "analyze_wildcard": false,
            "fuzziness": 0
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "skinny tires",
            "fields": ["description, keywords"]
          }
        }
      ],
      "minimum_should_match": 4
    }
  },
  "size": 5,
  "sort": {
    "price": {
      "order": "asc"
    }
  }
}

Configuration

A configuration object is passed as a second argument to buildECQ:

KEY	VALUE TYPE	DESCRIPTION
index	String	The endpoint to send the query object to.
[test]	Boolean	Runs esConnect in "test mode" (does not send a network request).
[size]	Integer	Specify the maximum amount of results to return. Default: 10
[required]	Integer	Specify the minimum amount of queries a result should match (all if omitted).
[sortBy]	String	Sort results by a specific date.

Interoperability

With elasticsearch.js

To use with ElasticSearch's official Javascript client, elasticsearch.js, simply call buildESQuery as follows in the object given to its search method:

client.search({
  index: 'myindex',
  body: buildECQ(query, config)
});

With ReactiveSearch

To use with ReactiveSearch, a React component library, simply pass a function that calls buildESQuery as follows into the customQuery prop. For example:

<DataSearch
  ...
  customQuery={() => buildECQ(query, config)}
/>