Question

Is it possible to register query (like the percolate process) and call them by name to execute them.
I am building an application that will let the user save search query associated with a label. I would like to save the query generated by the filter in ES.

If I save the query in an index, I have to call ES first to retrieve the query, extract the field containing the query and then call ES again to execute it. Can I do it in one call ?

The other solution is to register queries (labels with _percolator with an identifier of the user:
/_percolate/transaction/user1_label1

{
  "userId": "user1",
  "query":{
     "term":{"field1":"foo" }
   }
}

and when there is a new document use the percolator in a non indexing mode (filtered per userId) to retrieve which query match, and then update the document by adding a field “label”:[“user1_label1”, “user1_label2”] and finaly index the document. SO the labelling is done at indexing time.

What do you think ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try Filter Aliases.

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '
{
    "actions" : [
         {
            "add" : {
                 "index" : "the_real_index",
                 "alias" : "user1",
                 "filter" : { "term" : { "field1" : "foo" } }
            }
        }
    ]
}'