The boost field, like other special fields such as timestamp and id, is set at the root level of a type, not as a property: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-boost-field.html
Perhaps I should have added this confusion as yet another reason why to avoid the boost field: http://blog.brusic.com/2014/02/document-boosting-in-elasticsearch.html -- Ivan On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, JoeZ99 <[email protected]> wrote: > according to martijin's remarks on > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elasticsearch/A5DSgvnTnC0 > and also this issue > https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/3752 , > > search results should be sortable by _boost field. > > my particular setup: > > { > "product": { > "properties": { > "_boost": { > "type": "float", > "null_value": 1.0, > "index": "not_analyzed" > } > } > } > > when using a match_all query, I can sort for any numeric field, but the > "_boost", that does not work. I'm using 0.90.10 > > Also, I don't know if this is related, but when I try to get the mapping > via localhost:9200/index_name/_mapping , the _boost field doesn't show up. > I guess it's because of its special nature. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e22fe979-1978-4e5d-8a7c-73a6dd238cdf%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQA-Xm9bwsG54uMzduqXcV2_%2BCPWrcD5zJWHFJMnLAzPYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
