First of all, javanna provided a very good answer from a practical perspective. However, for the sake of completeness, I want to mention that in some cases there is a way to do it without reindexing the data.
If the speciesName
field is stored and your queries produce relatively small number of results, you can use script_field
to retrieve stored field values:
curl -XGET http://my_server:9200/idx_occurrence/Occurrence/_search?pretty=true -d '{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"fields": ["dataset"],
"query": "2",
"default_operator": "AND"
}
},
"facets": {
"test": {
"terms": {
"script_field": "_fields['\''speciesName'\''].value",
"size": 50000
}
}
}
}
'
As a result of this query, elasticsearch will retrieve the speciesName
field for every record in your result set and it will construct facets from these values. Needless to say, if your result set contains millions of records, performance of this query might be sluggish.
Similarly, if the field is not stored, but record source is stored, you can use script_field
facet to retrieve field values from the source:
......
"script_field": "_source['\''speciesName'\'']",
......
Again, source for each record in the result list will be retrieved and parsed, so you might need some patience to run this query on a large set of records.