Can I Scope Aggregations to Ignore Certain Query Parameters?

[wgottschalk (William Gottschalk)]

I'm using Elasticsearch 5.5
I'm trying to index movies by name and location.

{
  "mappings": {
    "movie": {
      "genre": {
        "type": "keyword"
      },
      "geolocation": {
        "type": "geo_point"
      }
    }
  }
}

A user performs a search by providing a location and I'll send back the search results within a bounding box and also provided aggregation stats about the genres playing in their neighborhood.

However, I also want to provide a way to filter by location and genre BUT I still want to return ALL genres in that particular location.

The below query returns the proper search results but the aggregations will only return "Action", but I still want all genres.

{
  "size": 0,
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "filter": [{
        "geo_bounding_box": {
          "geolocation": {
            "top_left": {
              "lat": 40.73,
              "lon": -74.1
            },
            "bottom_right": {
              "lat": 40.717,
              "lon": -73.99
            }
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "bool": {
          "should": [
            {"term": {"genre.raw": "Action"}}  
          ]
        }
      }
      ]
    }
  },
  "aggs": {
    "cuisines": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "cuisines.raw",
        "size": 10
      }
    }
  }
}

I've considered using Global Aggregations, but that will return all aggregations of genres in my entire index and not a specific bounding box. Is there a way to scope my aggregation to ignore certain query parameters?

[val (Val Crettaz)]

This is a good use case to leverage post filter. you just need to change your query to:

{
  "size": 0,
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "filter": [
        {
          "geo_bounding_box": {
            "geolocation": {
              "top_left": {
                "lat": 40.73,
                "lon": -74.1
              },
              "bottom_right": {
                "lat": 40.717,
                "lon": -73.99
              }
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "post_filter": {
    "term": {
      "genre.raw": "Action"
    }
  },
  "aggs": {
    "cuisines": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "cuisines.raw",
        "size": 10
      }
    }
  }
}

This will return results within the given bounding box, compute aggregations on that result set and then filter the returned documents to only the ones with the given genre.