SuggestOption - Payload - How To Index Data In The Payload

[mickdelaney]

Hi,

I want to index the id of a entity that i'm using the completion suggester with.
the name will be the text & then a payload object would contain its id to use when selected.

as shown here: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters-completion.html

is that available in NEST at the moment?

regards

[mickdelaney]

For reference I figured it out:

I just created an object:

[JsonObject]
public class SuggestModel
{
[JsonProperty("input")]
public IEnumerable Input { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("output")]
    public string Output { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("payload")]
    public object Payload { get; set; }
}

and indexed that using the following mapping:

[ElasticProperty(
Name = "suggested_company",
Type = FieldType.Completion,
IndexAnalyzer = "simple",
SearchAnalyzer = "simple"
)]
public SuggestModel SuggestedCompany { get; set; }

[gmarz]

@mickdelaney

FYI- we just added this recently: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-net/blob/develop/src/Nest/Domain/Suggest/SuggestField.cs

Which you can get if you're willing to update to our CI package on myget. Otherwise, using your own object works fine.

[MattMinke]

Follow up question. Should SuggestField.Input be a string or an IEnumerable like @mickdelaney has. If its suppose to be a string then how do you handle multiple inputs?

[gmarz]

@Minx-SigEp it should be an IEnumerable, but would be a breaking change. We have this issue open #1220 to address it in 2.0.

For now, you can just implement your own suggest object.

[bgiromini]

@mickdelaney Here is how I indexed the completion suggestions:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/21887982/593214