Range query in ElasticSearch (GET without body) - json

Question

So very basic question about elasticsearch which the docs not answer very clearly (because they seem to go into many advanced details but miss the basic ones!).
Example: range query
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/range-query.html
Doesn't tell how to PERFORM the range, is it via the search endpoint?
And if it is, then how to do it via querystring? I mean, I want to do a GET, not a POST (because it's a query, not an insertion/modification). However the documention for GET requests doesn't tell how to use JSON like in the Range sample:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/uri-request.html
What am I missing?
Thanks

Answer 1

Use the Lucene query syntax:
curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/my_index/_search?q=my_field:[0+TO+25]&pretty'

Answer 2

Let's assume we have an index
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test
And some documents
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/range/1 -d '{"age": 9}'
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/range/2 -d '{"age": 12}'
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/range/3 -d '{"age": 16}'
Now we can query these documents within a certain range via
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/range/_search?pretty=true' -d '
{
"query" : {
"range" : {
"age" : {
"from" : "10",
"to" : "20",
"include_lower" : true,
"include_upper": true
}
}
}
}
'
This will return the documents 2 and 3.
I'm not sure if there is a way to perform these kind of complex queries via URI request, though.
Edit: Thanks to karmi here is the solution without JSON request:
curl -XGET --globoff 'localhost:9200/test/range/_search?q=age:["10"+TO+"20"]&pretty=true'

Answer 3

Replying to myself thanks to #javanna:
In the RequestBody section of the Search docs:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/request-body.html
At the end, it says:
The rest of the search request should be passed within the body itself. The body content can also be passed as a REST parameter named source.
So I guess that I need to use the search endpoint with the source attribute to pass json.