How to exclude a filter from a facet? - elasticsearch

Question

I have come from a Solr background and am trying to find the equivalent of "tagging" and "excluding" in Elasticsearch.
In the following example, how can I exclude the price filter from the calculation of the prices facet? In other words, the prices facet should take into account all of the filters except for price.
{
query : {
"filtered" : {
"query" : {
"match_all" : {}
},
"filter" : {
"and" : [
{
"term" : {
"colour" : "Red"
}
},
{
"term" : {
"feature" : "Square"
}
},
{
"term" : {
"feature" : "Shiny"
}
},
{
"range" : {
"price" : {
"from" : "10",
"to" : "20"
}
}
}
]
}
}
},
"facets" : {
"colours" : {
"terms" : {
"field" : "colour"
}
},
"features" : {
"terms" : {
"field" : "feature"
}
},
"prices" : {
"statistical" : {
"field" : "price"
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

You can apply price filter as a top level filter to your query and add it to all facets expect prices as a facet_filter:
{
query : {
"filtered" : {
"query" : {
"match_all" : {}
},
"filter" : {
"and" : [
{
"term" : {
"colour" : "Red"
}
},
{
"term" : {
"feature" : "Square"
}
},
{
"term" : {
"feature" : "Shiny"
}
}
]
}
}
},
"facets" : {
"colours" : {
"terms" : {
"field" : "colour"
},
"facet_filter" : {
"range" : { "price" : { "from" : "10", "to" : "20" } }
}
},
"features" : {
"terms" : {
"field" : "feature"
},
"facet_filter" : {
"range" : { "price" : { "from" : "10", "to" : "20" } }
}
},
"prices" : {
"statistical" : {
"field" : "price"
}
}
},
"filter": {
"range" : { "price" : { "from" : "10", "to" : "20" } }
}
}

Answer 2

Btw, important change since ES 1.0.0. Top-level filter was renamed to post_filter (http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_search_requests.html#_search_requests). And filtered queries using is still preferred as described here: http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Filters-vs-Queries-td3219558.html
And there is global option for facets to avoid filtering by query filter (elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets.html#_scope).