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Validate Query
You can use the Validate Query API to validate a query without running it. The query can be sent as a path parameter or included in the request body.
Path and HTTP methods
The Validate Query API contains the following path:
GET <index>/_validate/query
Path parameters
All path parameters are optional.
Parameter | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
index | String | The index to validate the query against. If you don’t specify an index or multiple indexes as part of the URL (or want to override the URL value for an individual search), you can include it here. Examples include "logs-*" and ["my-store", "sample_data_ecommerce"] . |
query | Query object | The query using Query DSL. |
Query parameters
The following table lists the available query parameters. All query parameters are optional.
Parameter | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
all_shards | Boolean | When true , validation is run against all shards instead of against one shard per index. Default is false . |
allow_no_indices | Boolean | Whether to ignore wildcards that don’t match any indexes. Default is true . |
allow_partial_search_results | Boolean | Whether to return partial results if the request encounters an error or times out. Default is true . |
analyzer | String | The analyzer to use in the query string. This should only be used with the q option. |
analyze_wildcard | Boolean | Specifies whether to analyze wildcard and prefix queries. Default is false . |
default_operator | String | Indicates whether the default operator for a string query should be AND or OR . Default is OR . |
df | String | The default field if a field prefix is not provided in the query string. |
expand_wildcards | String | Specifies the type of index that wildcard expressions can match. Supports comma-separated values. Valid values are all (match any index), open (match open, non-hidden indexes), closed (match closed, non-hidden indexes), hidden (match hidden indexes), and none (deny wildcard expressions). Default is open . |
explain | Boolean | Whether to return information about how OpenSearch computed the document’s score. Default is false . |
ignore_unavailable | Boolean | Specifies whether to include missing or closed indexes in the response and ignores unavailable shards during the search request. Default is false . |
lenient | Boolean | Specifies whether OpenSearch should ignore format-based query failures (for example, as a result of querying a text field for an integer). Default is false . |
rewrite | Determines how OpenSearch rewrites and scores multi-term queries. Valid values are constant_score , scoring_boolean , constant_score_boolean , top_terms_N , top_terms_boost_N , and top_terms_blended_freqs_N . Default is constant_score . | |
q | String | A query in the Lucene string syntax. |
Example request
The following example request uses an index named Hamlet
created using a bulk
request:
PUT hamlet/_bulk?refresh
{"index":{"_id":1}}
{"user" : { "id": "hamlet" }, "@timestamp" : "2099-11-15T14:12:12", "message" : "To Search or Not To Search"}
{"index":{"_id":2}}
{"user" : { "id": "hamlet" }, "@timestamp" : "2099-11-15T14:12:13", "message" : "My dad says that I'm such a ham."}
You can then use the Validate Query API to validate an index query, as shown in the following example:
GET hamlet/_validate/query?q=user.id:hamlet
The query can also be sent as a request body, as shown in the following example:
GET hamlet/_validate/query
{
"query" : {
"bool" : {
"must" : {
"query_string" : {
"query" : "*:*"
}
},
"filter" : {
"term" : { "user.id" : "hamlet" }
}
}
}
}
Example responses
If the query passes validation, then the response indicates that the query is true
, as shown in the following example response, where the valid
parameter is true
:
{
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"valid": true
}
If the query does not pass validation, then OpenSearch responds that the query is false
. The following example request query includes a dynamic mapping not configured in the hamlet
index:
GET hamlet/_validate/query
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "@timestamp:foo",
"lenient": false
}
}
}
OpenSearch responds with the following, where the valid
parameter is false
:
{
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"valid": false
}
Certain query parameters can also affect what is included in the response. The following examples show how the Explain, Rewrite, and all_shards query options affect the response.
Explain
The explain
option returns information about the query failure in the explanations
field, as shown in the following example response:
{
"valid" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"explanations" : [ {
"index" : "_shakespeare",
"valid" : false,
"error" : "shakespeare/IAEc2nIXSSunQA_suI0MLw] QueryShardException[failed to create query:...failed to parse date field [foo]"
} ]
}
Rewrite
When the rewrite
option is set to true
in the request, the explanations
option shows the Lucene query that is executed as a string, as shown in the following response:
{
"valid": true,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"explanations": [
{
"index": "",
"valid": true,
"explanation": "((user:hamlet^4.256753 play:hamlet^6.863601 play:romeo^2.8415773 plot:puck^3.4193945 plot:othello^3.8244398 ... )~4) -ConstantScore(_id:2) #(ConstantScore(_type:_doc))^0.0"
}
]
}
Rewrite and all_shards
When both the rewrite
and all_shards
options are set to true
, the Validate Query API responds with detailed information from all available shards as opposed to only one shard (the default), as shown in the following response:
{
"valid": true,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"explanations": [
{
"index": "my-index-000001",
"shard": 0,
"valid": true,
"explanation": "(user.id:hamlet)^0.6333333"
}
]
}