Query and exclude in ElasticSearch - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to use the match_phrase_prefix query with an exclude query, so that it matches all terms except for the terms to be exclude. I have it figured out in a basic URI query, but not the regular JSON query. How do I convert this URI into a JSON type query?
"http://127.0.0.1:9200/topics/_search?q=name:"
+ QUERY + "* AND !name=" + CURRENT_TAGS
Where CURRENT_TAGS is a list of tags not to match with.
This is what I have so far:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"match_phrase_prefix": {
"name": "a"
}
},
"filter": {
"terms": {
"name": [
"apple"
]
}
}
}
}
}
However, when I do this apple is still included in the results. How do I exclude apple?

Answer 1

You are almost there, you can use must_not, which is part of boolean query to exclude the documents which you don't want, below is working example on your sample.
Index mapping
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text"
}
}
}
}
Index sample docs as apple and amazon worlds biggest companies which matches your search criteria :)
Search query to exclude apple
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"match_phrase_prefix": {
"name": "a"
}
},
"must_not": {
"match": {
"name": "apple"
}
}
}
}
}
Search results
"hits": [
{
"_index": "matchprase",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "2",
"_score": 0.6931471,
"_source": {
"name": "amazon"
}
}
]