Elasticsearch date range intersection

Question

I\'m storing something like the following information in elastic search:

{ \"timeslot_start_at\" : \"2013-02-01\", \"timeslot_end_at\" : \"2013-02-03\" }
         


        

Answer 1

Update: It is now possible to use date_range data type that was added in elasticsearch v5.2. For an earlier version of elasticsearch the following solution still applies.

To test for intersection, you should combine two range queries into a single query using bool query:

{
    "bool": {
        "must": [
            {
                "range": {
                    "timeslot_start_at": {
                        "lte": "2013-02-28"
                    }
                }
            },
            {
                "range": {
                    "timeslot_end_at": {
                        "gte": "2013-02-03"
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}