ANDing search keywords for elastic Search

Question

How can we configure elastic search so that it only returns results which matches all the words in the search query. The documents indexed have data having multiple fields and so the words of search query may match different fields of data but all the words must get matched in the result ?

Answer 1

you can query string query feature to search for results

sample search query

GET /_search
{
    "query": {
        "query_string": {
            "query": "(content:this OR name:this) AND (content:that OR name:that)"
        }
    }
}

In this query content and name is the field name, this is the search criteria

you can build search query similar to that.

Answer 2

I think you're looking for a multi_match query together with and operator. This is the link to docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html and it seems that cross_fields is query type you're looking for. I'd read more on that page, but this is probably what you are looking for:

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "multi_match" : {
      "query":      "Will Smith",
      "type":       "cross_fields",
      "fields":     [ "first_name", "last_name" ],
      "operator":   "and"
    }
  }
}