Searching ElasticSearch using NEST C# Client

Question

I started looking around for a search engine and after some reading I decided going with ElasticSearch (which is quite amazing :)), my project is in C# so I looked around for a

Answer 1

I just use the string query version: create my query object using C# anonymous type and serialize it to JSON.

That way, I can have straightforward mapping from all the JSON query examples out there, no need translating into this "query DSL".

Elasticsearch by itself evolves quite rapidly, and this query DSL thus is bound to lack some features.

Edit: Example:

var query = "blabla";
var q = new
        {
            query = new
            {
                text = new
                {
                    _all= query
                }
            }, 
            from = (page-1)*pageSize, 
            size=pageSize
        };
        var qJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(q);
        var hits = _elasticClient.Search(qJson);