Aggregation on fields within nested objects in elasticsearch

[Tosh]

hi ,

I have two entries in nested object mapping as below :

"itemslist":
{
      "type": "nested",
      "properties": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "itemname": {
          "type": "text"
        },
        "quantity": {
          "type": "integer"
        }
}
}

I want to aggregate sum on the quantity based on itemname , issue i'm not sure how to aggregate on array of objects .

Sample data :

 Itemlist : 
     {
{
      "itemname": "1234",
      "quantityint": 2,
    }  ,
    {
      "itemname": "1235",
      "quantityint": 2,
    } 
}

Requirement :
To be able to query "itemname": "1234" , with sum aggregation on quantity with result =2 . Presently i'm getting result as 4 in kibana visualization .

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

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The main question I have is why are you indexing an array of items if you actually want to compute items. Just indexing individual items is looking a better design to me but may be I don't have the full picture here.

So I'd index things like:

PUT items/_doc/1234
{
  "itemname": "1234",
  "quantityint": 2
} 
PUT items/_doc/1234
{
  "itemname": "1235",
  "quantityint": 2
} 

Then creating a sum is quite easy I believe.

[Tosh]

Hi ,

So basically its a list of object in java that i'm trying to create equivalent mapping of . In a single request there can be multiple items , therefore i've mapped the object as nested .

Is there a way to fetch only the corresponding quantity of a given item in an array of items for a given object?

Thanks,
Toshi

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

I was not speaking about the implementation details but about the need.

If you are trying to compute on "item", then index "item" and not a group of items.

Is there a way to fetch only the corresponding quantity of a given item in an array of items for a given object?

I don't know but may be provide a full recreation script as described in About the Elasticsearch category. It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem.

[Tosh]

items is not the index in this case , it's a field which contains nested objects . My mappings looks something like this :

{
  "properties": {
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "date",
      "format": "date_optional_time"
    },
    "updatedon": {
      "type": "date",
      "format": "date_optional_time"
    },
    "personinfolist": {
            "type": "nested",
             properties:{
                   "field1": {"type":"text"}
                                }
    },
     "itemslist":
              {
               "type": "nested",
              "properties": {
                     "itemname": {
                     "type": "text"
                                      },
                     "quantity": {
                      "type": "integer"
                                        }
                 }
}
}

[Tosh]

Found the solution , below query can be used for aggregation on the inner hits of the nested object :

 {
   "aggs": {
      "nested_nestedobjects": {
         "nested": {
            "path": "items"
         },
         "aggs": {
            "filtered_nestedobjects": {
               "filter": {
                  "term": {
                     "items.name": "abc"
                  }
               },
               "aggs": {
                  "total_quantity": {
                     "sum": {
                        "field": "items.quantity"
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
}