Filter out metadata fields and only return source fields in elasticsearch

Question

Is there a way to tell elasticsearch to not return any metadata? Currently I can select which fields I want to be returned in source. But I only want fields in source. I wou

Answer 1

response_filtering

All REST APIs accept a filter_path parameter that can be used to reduce the response returned by elasticsearch. This parameter takes a comma separated list of filters expressed with the dot notation:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty&filter_path=took,hits.hits._id,hits.hits._score'
{
  "took" : 3,
  "hits" : {
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_id" : "3640",
        "_score" : 1.0
      },
      {
        "_id" : "3642",
        "_score" : 1.0
      }
    ]
  }
}

In python

def get_all( connection, index_name, type_name ):

    query = {
        "match_all":{}
    }

    result = connection.search( index_name, type_name,
             {"query": query},
             filter_path= ["took", "hits.hits._id", "hits.hits.score"])

    return result

If you want to filter _source fields, you should consider combining the already existing _source parameter (see Get API for more details) with the filter_path parameter like this:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty&filter_path=hits.hits._source&_source=title'
{
  "hits" : {
    "hits" : [ {
      "_source":{"title":"Book #2"}
    }, {
      "_source":{"title":"Book #1"}
    }, {
      "_source":{"title":"Book #3"}
    } ]
  }
}