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Highlighting, Sorting, and Paginating Search Results in Elasticsearch 7.13

When implementing search into applications, there are common user experience features that most people have come to expect nowadays. Search term highlighting, sorting, and pagination are all possible within the Elasticsearch Query DSL. In this hands-on lab, you will get to implement highlighting, sorting, and pagination within search queries.

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Clock icon 3h 0m
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Clock icon Jan 28, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Craft a Search Query for the Word "life" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting

    From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the shakespeare dataset that meets all of the following requirements:

    • Matches all documents from the shakespeare dataset where some form of the word "life" appears in the text_entry field.
    • Paginates the search results with 25 results per page and displays the first page of results.
    • Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML <em> and </em> tags to emphasize the text.
    • Sorts the results by relevancy score in descending order.
  2. Challenge

    Craft a Search Query for the Word "death" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting

    From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the shakespeare dataset that meets all of the following requirements:

    • Matches all documents from the shakespeare dataset where some form of the word "death" appears in the text_entry field.
    • Paginates the search results with 25 results per page and displays the first page of results.
    • Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML <b> and </b> tags to bold the text.
    • Sorts the results first by play_name.keyword then speaker.keyword in ascending order, followed by relevancy score in descending order.
  3. Challenge

    Craft a Search Query for the Part of "THESEUS" and the Words "life" or "death" on the shakespeare Dataset with Pagination, Highlighting, and Sorting

    From the Kibana console, craft a search query on the shakespeare dataset that meets all of the following requirements:

    • Matches all documents from the shakespeare dataset where the speaker.keyword is "THESEUS" and some form of the word "death" or "life" appears in the text_entry field.
    • Paginates the search results with 10 results per page and displays the first page of results.
    • Highlights the matched term(s) with the HTML <b> and </b> tags and the HTML <mark> and </mark> tags to both bold and highlight the text.
    • Sorts the results by line_id in ascending order.

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