How to search given fields with the Elaticsearch engine？ about scout HOT 6 CLOSED

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You are talking about a relationship search right?
in that case you should do something like this, assuming that you have a relation named "user_type" which returns an UserType object that has a name attribute:

Modify toSearchableArray method on your User class

`

public function toSearchableArray()
{
    $array = $this->toArray();

    $extra_data = [];
    $extra_data['type_name'] = $this->user_type->name;

    return array_merge($array, $extra_data);
}

`

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no no no ，I mean I wann to search a custom field in the ES type，for example， I wann to search only the name field or anyother field which I wann to search of the user_type in the Elasticsearch，not all the fields in the user_type.

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It doesn't seem like you can - the ElasticsearchEngine class just passes an _all key to the ElasticSearch server.

You'll need to create a custom Search Engine to provide this feature yourself - or just use the Elasticsearch\Clientbuilder class directly.

The same goes for Boosting or any other advanced features which seem to be outside the scope of the scout project.

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Perhaps the Engine abstract class could be updated to return the underlying "driver". This could be analogous to Laravel's filesystem disk implementation abstracting local filesystem and cloud providers. You can still access the underlying driver instance and any proprietary methods. The only complexity is mapping the response into eloquent models.

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I think you could extend your model and override toSearchableArray() only returning 'name', but you will have to reimport manually this model if the original gets changed.

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