How to select specific fields in elasticsearch-dsl python

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Vikash Singh picture Vikash Singh · Nov 19, 2015 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I am using elasticsearch dsl to search on elasticsearch : https://elasticsearch-dsl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

How can i filter specific fields while making a search query:

I know its supported in elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.4/search-request-fields.html

Just dont know how to do the same in Elasticsearch-dsl

Answer

Val picture Val · Nov 19, 2015

When you have your Search object you can call the .fields() function on it and specify which fields you want to return:

s = search.Search()
s = s.fields(["field1", "field2"])
...

It's not explicitly mentioned in the documentation, but you can see the fields function in the source for the search.py file and some test cases for the fields function

UPDATE

From ES 2.x onwards, the fields() method has been renamed to source()

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