moving groovy scripts to a file on disk @ elasticsearch/config/scripts to avoid dynamic script loading look at http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/running-groovy-scripts-without-dynamic-scripting/ and https://github.com/pelias/scripts

query/sort.js

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ var weights = require('pelias-suggester-pipeline').weights;
 module.exports = [
   {
     '_script': {
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\''+ population + '\'))' +
+      'file': 'population',
-                ' { return doc[\'' + population + '\'].value }' +
-                ' else { return 0 }',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }
@@ -16,10 +14,7 @@ module.exports = [
       'params': {
         'weights': weights
       },
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\'_type\')) { '+
+      'file': 'weights',
-                'type=doc[\'_type\'].value; '+
-                'return ( type in weights ) ? weights[ type ] : 0 }' +
-                'else { return 0 }',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }

test/unit/query/reverse.js

@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ module.exports.tests.interface = function(test, common) {
 };
 
 var sort = [
+  '_score',
   {
     '_script': {
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\'population\')) { return doc[\'population\'].value } else { return 0 }',
+      'file': 'population',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }
@@ -35,10 +36,7 @@ var sort = [
           'admin0': 2
         }
       },
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\'_type\')) { '+
+      'file': 'weights',
-                'type=doc[\'_type\'].value; '+
-                'return ( type in weights ) ? weights[ type ] : 0 }'+
-                'else { return 0 }',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }
@@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ module.exports.tests.query = function(test, common) {
             'unit': 'km'
           }
         }
-      ].concat(sort),
+      ].concat(sort.slice(1)),
       'size': 1,
       'track_scores': true
     };

test/unit/query/search.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ var sort = [
   '_score',
   {
     '_script': {
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\'population\')) { return doc[\'population\'].value } else { return 0 }',
+      'file': 'population',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@ var sort = [
           'admin0': 2
         }
       },
-      'script': 'if (doc.containsKey(\'_type\')) { '+
+      'file': 'weights',
-                'type=doc[\'_type\'].value; '+
-                'return ( type in weights ) ? weights[ type ] : 0 }'+
-                'else { return 0 }',
       'type': 'number',
       'order': 'desc'
     }