documents.yaml

_type: district

title: there

---

_type: street

title: there

play.sh

#!/bin/bash

export ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:9200"

# Create indexes

curl -XPUT "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/play" -d '{
    "settings": {}
}'


# Index documents
curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_bulk?refresh=true" -d '
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"district"}}
{"title":"there"}
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"street"}}
{"title":"there"}
'

# Do searches

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "custom_filters_score": {
            "query": {
                "match": {
                    "title": {
                        "query": "there"
                    }
                }
            },
            "filters": [
                {
                    "boost": 2,
                    "filter": {
                        "type": {
                            "value": "district"
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}
'

play.yaml

# Auto generated by Found's Play-tool at 2014-01-31T23:47:04+01:00
version: 0
title: boosting a certain type
description: ""

searches.yaml

# In reply to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21489407/boost-rank-for-special-type-of-document
query: 
    custom_filters_score: 
        query: 
            match: 
                title: 
                    query: there
        filters: 
            - boost: 2
              filter: 
                  type: 
                      value: district