Elasticsearch curl example for ranking by individual token boosts. You can copy this full input and paste it directly into the command-line. Expected results: The result set should be sorted perfectly by the boost value for the skill "ruby". Please note term-frequencies WILL affect scoring and it's only because these documents have the exact sam…

keyword-boosting

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/p'
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/p'

curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/p/profile/_mapping' -d '
{
    "profile": {
        "properties": {
            "skills": {
                "type": "string",
                "omit_term_freq_and_positions" : true,
                "index" : "not_analyzed"
            }
        }
    }
}'

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "ruby", "_boost": 5 } ]
}'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "ruby", "_boost": 4 } ]
}'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "ruby", "_boost": 1 } ]
}'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "ruby", "_boost": 3 } ]
}'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "ruby", "_boost": 2 } ]
}'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{
  "skills": [ { "_value": "python", "_boost": 100 } ]
}'

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/p/_refresh"

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
        "query_string": {
            "query": "ruby"
        }
    },
    "sort": [{"_score": "desc"}],
    "explain": false
}'