Best way to check if a field exist in an Elasticsearch document
May be is a very stupid question, What is the best way to check if a field of a document in elasticsearch exists? I can't find anything in the documentation. For example if this document doesn't have the field/key "price" I don't want to return in the result. { "updated": "2015/09/17 11:27:27", "name": "Eye Shadow", "format": "1.5 g / 0.05 oz", } What I can do? Thanks You can use the exists filter combined with a bool/must filter like this: { "query": { "filtered": { "filter": { "bool": { "must": [ { "exists": { "field": "price" } }, ... <-- your other constraints, if any ] } } } } }