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Asked: 2026-06-15T08:08:43+00:00

I am currently working on creating a custom script in Java for Elasticsearch to

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I am currently working on creating a custom script in Java for Elasticsearch to assist with scoring. If I was using mvel I could just say

doc['field_name'].distance(lat, lon)

In java there seems to be no (seemingly available) distance functions that I can run against a field in the document. This is ok, I guess, because I could use the Haversine distance formula if I had it. However, if there was something built into the Elasticsearch libraries then I would rather use that.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Translated to the native script, your mvel statement would look like this:

    ((GeoPointDocFieldData)doc().field("field_name")).distance(lat, lon)

    It’s also possible to retrieve lists of latitudes and longitudes as arrays using getLats() and getLons() method and calculate the distances using 

    GeoDistance.PLANE.calculate(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, unit)
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