_boost
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Deprecated in 1.0.0.RC1.
Boosting is the process of enhancing the relevancy of a document or field. Field level mapping allows to define an explicit boost level on a specific field. The boost field mapping (applied on the root object) allows to define a boost field mapping where its content will control the boost level of the document. For example, consider the following mapping:
{ "tweet" : { "_boost" : {"name" : "my_boost", "null_value" : 1.0} } }
The above mapping defines a mapping for a field named my_boost
. If the
my_boost
field exists within the JSON document indexed, its value will
control the boost level of the document indexed. For example, the
following JSON document will be indexed with a boost value of 2.2
:
{ "my_boost" : 2.2, "message" : "This is a tweet!" }
Function score instead of boostedit
Support for document boosting via the _boost
field has been removed
from Lucene and is deprecated in Elasticsearch as of v1.0.0.RC1. The
implementation in Lucene resulted in unpredictable result when
used with multiple fields or multi-value fields.
Instead, the Function Score Query can be used to achieve the desired functionality by boosting each document by the value in any field of the document:
{ "query": { "function_score": { "query": {"match": { "title": "your main query" } }, "functions": [{ "field_value_factor": {
"field": "my_boost_field" } }], "score_mode": "multiply" } } }
The original query, now wrapped in a | |
This function returns the value in |
Note, that field_value_factor
is a 1.2.x feature.