Elastic Search URI Search Filtering - elasticsearch

Question

I have a movies ES index with the following mapping:
{
"doc": {
"properties": {
"director": {
"type": "text"
},
"genres": {
"type": "text",
"index": "false"
},
"title": {
"type": "text"
},
"year": {
"type": "long"
}
}
}
}
For genres, I'll be submitting an array of strings. Now, I want to allow my customers to submit a query against my endpoint, where I'd proxy q request parameter down to ES client.
But I am struggling to filter the data with the URI search the same way it can be achieved by submitting a query as a payload against my index. For instance:
GET movies/doc/_search
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"match_all": {}
},
"filter": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"genres": "War"
}
}
],
"must": [
{
"term": {
"genres": "Foo"
}
}
],
"must": [
{
"term": {
"genres": "Bar"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
Can the same be achieved via URI search? If so, how?

Answer 1

From ES documentation
You can use query parameters to define your search criteria directly
in the request URI, rather than in the request body. Request URI
searches do not support the full Elasticsearch Query DSL, but are
handy for testing.
Based on our discussion, I suggest you build a DSL query in the backend after receiving request from the client. You need to expose an API which will send UI inputs to the backend in a structured format(JSON) which can help you build the DSL query easily.

Answer 2

Here is how I ended up doing it, without the q parameter. Version 6.0.1:
POST http://127.0.0.1:9200/movies/_mapping/doc
{
"doc": {
"properties": {
"director": {
"type": "text"
},
"title": {
"type": "text"
},
"year": {
"type": "long"
},
"genres": {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
Create documents:
POST http://127.0.0.1:9200/movies/doc/
{
"title": "title 1",
"director": "Igor M",
"year": 2011,
"genres": ["Bar", "Foo"]
}
Query for documents:
GET http://127.0.0.1:9200/movies/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must":[
{ "match": { "genres": "War" }},
{ "match": { "genres": "Bar" }}
]
}
}
}