How to filter Range criteria using ElasticSearch Repository - spring

Question

I need to fetch Employees who joined between 2021-12-01 to 2021-12-31. I am using ElasticsearchRepository to fetch data from ElasticSearch index.
How can we fetch range criteria using repository.
public interface EmployeeRepository extends ElasticsearchRepository<Employee, String>,EmployeeRepositoryCustom {
List<Employee> findByJoinedDate(String joinedDate);
}
I have tried Between option like below: But it is returning no results
List<Employee> findByJoinedDateBetween(String fromJoinedDate, String toJoinedDate);
My Index configuration
#Document(indexName="employee", createIndex=true,type="_doc", shards = 4)
public class Employee {
#Field(type=FieldType.Text)
private String joinedDate;

Answer 1

Note: You seem to be using an outdated version of Spring Data Elasticsearch. The type parameter of the #Document
annotation was deprecated in 4.0 and removed in 4.1, as Elasticsearch itself does not support typed indices since
version 7.
To your question:
In order to be able to have a range query for dates in Elasticsearch the field in question must be of type date (the
Elasticsearch type). For your entity this would mean (I refer to the attributes from the current version 4.3):
#Nullable
#Field(type = FieldType.Date, pattern = "uuuu-MM-dd", format = {})
private LocalDate joinedDate;
This defines the joinedDate to have a date type and sets the string representation to the given pattern. The
empty format argument makes sure that the additional default values (DateFormat.date_optional_time and DateFormat. epoch_millis) are not set here. This results in the
following mapping in the index:
{
"properties": {
"joinedDate": {
"type": "date",
"format": "uuuu-MM-dd"
}
}
}
If you check the mapping in your index (GET localhost:9200/employee/_mapping) you will see that in your case the
joinedDate is of type text. You will either need to delete the index and have it recreated by your application or
create it with a new name and then, after the application has written the mapping, reindex the data from the old
index into the new one (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.16/docs-reindex.html).
Once you have the index with the correct mapping in place, you can define the method in your repository like this:
List<Employee> findByJoinedDateBetween(LocalDate fromJoinedDate, LocalDate toJoinedDate);
and call it:
repository.findByJoinedDateBetween(LocalDate.of(2021, 1, 1), LocalDate.of(2021, 12, 31));