In elasticsearch, is there a way to show which field in a document was the "hit"?

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When searching some documents using elasticsearch, I'd like to see which field in the document was the "hit" that flagged it up as a search result. Is there a native way to do this, or do I need to do it in the search client? E.g: ``` GET /events/_search?q=nottingham ``` gives me: ``` {//elided {'hits'[ {'id':1, 'name': 'Some name', 'nicknames': ['Nottingham'] }]}} ``` it's obvious from this example that the nickname matched, but can I get elasticsearch to flag that for me?

Accepted Answer

Elasticsearch can find and highlight terms from your query in the result fields. See http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/highlighting.html for more information. Technically speaking, it's not the same as flagging fields that caused the "hit", but for most practical purposes, it's as useful.

In elasticsearch, is there a way to show which field in a document was the "hit"?

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