Hi! We want to switch a service that uses Elasticsearch Boolean Queries to Typesense. Is it possible to build something similar to the query below in Typesense? We can use filters for

must

and

must_not

sections. What would be the best way to write

should

queries and to

boost

some elements of the query over others?

POST _search
{
  "query": {
    "bool" : {
      "must" : {
        "term" : { "user.id" : "kimchy" },
        "boost": 20
      },
      "filter": {
        "term" : { "tags" : "production" }
      },
      "must_not" : {
        "range" : {
          "age" : { "gte" : 10, "lte" : 20 },
          "boost":5
        }
      },
      "should" : [
        { "term" : { "tags" : "env1" } },
        { "term" : { "tags" : "deployed" } }
      ],
      "minimum_should_match" : 1,
      "boost" : 1.0
    }
  }
}

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html

should

is how Typesense behaves by default. It will first look for all terms in the query in the same record, if it doesn’t find enough records (threshold defined by

drop_tokens_threshold

), it will drop keywords until enough matches are found.

Thank you @Jason Bosco!