Enhancement: Add ability to boost specific keywords

[oscarssanchez]

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

We can weight specific fields but Elastic also gives you the chance to boost specific keywords via a query string query. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_boosting

We would probably need to add this to the queries we set by default, and also think about scalability issues when adding keywords.

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[felipeelia]

I made some exploration on this one and it seems it is not possible to use boosting and function_score in the same query. For anyone wanting to continue the discovery, here is how far I went: https://gist.github.com/felipeelia/8fc76ae6e2eda6d69d8cc7f21086f6eb

[oscarssanchez]

An alternative could be using an additional should clause

add_filter( 'ep_formatted_args', function( $formatted_args, $args ) {
$formatted_args["query"]["function_score"]["query"]["bool"]["should"][3]["multi_match"]["fields"] = 'terms.category.name';
$formatted_args["query"]["function_score"]["query"]["bool"]["should"][3]["multi_match"]["query"] = 'myterm';

return $formatted_args;
}, 9999999, 2 );

If we make the enhancement this wouldn't go in the ep_formatted_args. We would probably need to work on limiting the available fields with this approach as well.