How to use search templates in Elasticsearch

By Adrian Philipp

After providing a search template, use this to call the template with parameters.

POST /[index-name]/_search/template?search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch
{
  "id": "[template-name]",
  "params": {
    "size": 10,
    "query": "Thé"
  }
}

Make sure to provide all parameters that are required by the template. Otherwise it can happen that the parsing of the template fails.

For example when removing the size param, parsing the template fails with:

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "number_format_exception",
        "reason" : "empty String"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "number_format_exception",
    "reason" : "empty String"
  },
  "status" : 400
}

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