ElasticSearch completion suggester with Java API

Question

I had tried a few example codes on suggester feature of ElasticSearch on the net but I couldn\'t solve my problem against the autocomplete solution

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Answer 1

In order to use completion feature, you need to dedicate one field, which will be called completion and you have to specify a special mapping for it.

For example:

"mappings": {
   "article": {
     "properties": {
      "content": {
        "type": "string"
      },
     "completion_suggest": {
      "type": "completion"}
     }
   }
}

The completion_suggest field is the field we will use for the autocomplete function in the above code sample. After this mapping defination, the data must be indexing as follow:

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/kodcucom/article/1 -d '{
   "content": "elasticsearch",
   "completion_suggest": {
     "input": [ "es", "elastic", "elasticsearch" ],
     "output": "ElasticSearch"
   }
}'

Then Java API can be used as follows for get suggestions:

CompletionSuggestionBuilder skillNameSuggest  = new CompletionSuggestionBuilder("complete");
skillNameSuggest.text("es");
skillNameSuggest.field("completion_suggest");

SearchResponse searchResponse = client.prepareSearch("kodcucom")
        .setTypes("article")
        .setQuery(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery())
        .addSuggestion(skillNameSuggest)
        .execute().actionGet();

CompletionSuggestion compSuggestion = searchResponse.getSuggest().getSuggestion("complete");

List<CompletionSuggestion.Entry> entryList = compSuggestion.getEntries();
if(entryList != null) {
    CompletionSuggestion.Entry entry = entryList.get(0);
    List<CompletionSuggestion.Entry.Option> options =entry.getOptions();
    if(options != null)  {
        CompletionSuggestion.Entry.Option option = options.get(0);
        System.out.println(option.getText().string());
    }
}

Answer 2

Following link provides you the details of how to create a suggester index. https://www.elastic.co/blog/you-complete-me

Now, I use asynchronous Suggestionbuilder Java API to generate suggestions based on terms.

 SearchRequestBuilder suggestionsExtractor = elasticsearchService.suggestionsExtractor("yourIndexName", "yourIndexType//not necessary", "name_suggest", term);
        System.out.println(suggestionsExtractor);
        Map<String,Object> suggestionMap = new HashMap<>();
        suggestionsExtractor.execute(new ActionListener<SearchResponse>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(SearchResponse searchResponse) {
               if(searchResponse.status().equals(RestStatus.OK)) {
                   searchResponse.getSuggest().getSuggestion("productsearch").getEntries().forEach(e -> {
                       e.getOptions().forEach(s -> {
                           ArrayList<Object> contents = new ArrayList<>();

                           suggestionMap.put(s.getText().string(), s.getScore());

                       });
                   });


               }

            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(Exception e) {
                Helper.sendErrorResponse(routingContext,new JsonObject().put("details","internal server error"));
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        });

Following is how suggestionbuilder is created.

public SearchRequestBuilder suggestionsExtractor(String indexName, String typeName, String field, String term) {

        CompletionSuggestionBuilder csb = SuggestBuilders.completionSuggestion(field).text(term);
        SearchRequestBuilder suggestBuilder = client.prepareSearch()
                .suggest(new SuggestBuilder().addSuggestion(indexName, csb));
        return suggestBuilder;
    }