Elasticsearch query starting from a particular value - elasticsearch

Question

Is there a way to query starting from a particular value and get the next n records in Elasticsearch?
For example, I want to get 10 records starting from employee id "ABC_123".
The below query gives an error saying
[terms] query does not support [empId]
GET /_search
{
"from": 0, "size": 10,
"query" : {
"terms" : {
"empId" : "ABC_123"
}
}
}
What can I do about this?

Answer 1

You can use the prefix query, Also you can read more about the autocomplete on my blog, which discussed 4 approaches to make it work and their trade-off.
I used prefix query on your sample data and got the expected output and below is the step by step guide.
Index mapping
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"empId": {
"type": "keyword" --> field type `keyword`
}
}
}
}
Index sample docs
{
"empId" : "ABC_1231"
}
{
"empId" : "ABC_1232"
}
{
"empId" : "ABC_1233"
}
{
"empId" : "ABC_1234"
}
and so on
Prefix Search query
{
"from": 0,
"size": 10,
"query": {
"prefix": {
"empId": "ABC_123"
}
}
}
Search result
"hits": [
{
"_index": "so_prefix",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "1",
"_score": 1.0,
"_source": {
"empId": "ABC_1231"
}
},
{
"_index": "so_prefix",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "2",
"_score": 1.0,
"_source": {
"empId": "ABC_1232"
}
},
{
"_index": "so_prefix",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "3",
"_score": 1.0,
"_source": {
"empId": "ABC_1233"
}
},
{
"_index": "so_prefix",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "4",
"_score": 1.0,
"_source": {
"empId": "ABC_1234"
}
}
]