Can I specify the result fields in elasticsearch query?

Question

In my dataset, a document contains 20+ fields with nested objects. Most of them are long text fields. These fields are important for full-text search but we only need to sho

Answer 1

Take care in ElasticSearch 1.0.0.RC1 the fields return values now are always lists, if need the result to be a long instead of a list of longs (which might be a single value list for you most of the time) you can limit those with _source

{"_source" : ["field1", "field2", ...],
     "query" : {
        "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" }
    }
}