support weights/boosts about elasticutils HOT 4 CLOSED

Here's the docs for what django-haystack does:

http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/boost.html

It supports three different kinds of boosts that differ on what they apply to and at what point in the process they are used.

SUMO weights are sort of similar to field boosts, except SUMO weights are used at query time and field boosts are used at indexing time.

elasticsearch guide talks about query-time field boosts very briefly here: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/term-query.html

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This is specifically about adding query-time field boosts and differs from index-time field boosts and query-time term boosts.

ES calls them boosts so we should use that term, too.

Field boosts in ES are floats. e.g.

{
    "term" : { "user" : { "value" : "kimchy", "boost" : 2.0 } }
}

We should probably handle both float and integer boost values.

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