Building a query

Before a search, a query must be built. Elasticsearch provides several ways to build these queries. In this recipe, we will learn how to create a query object via QueryBuilder and simple strings.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, which you can get as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

A Maven tool or an IDE that natively supports it for Java programming, such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, must be installed.

The code for this recipe is in the  ch13/high-level-client directory and the referred class is  QueryCreation.

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