# Creating ElasticSearch 6.5 nested boolean queries from SQL

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-elasticsearch-6-5-nested-boolean-queries-from-sql/166206>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-elasticsearch-6-5-nested-boolean-queries-from-sql/166206 "2019-01-29T16:13:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniele\_Renda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/daniele_renda/32/39939_2.png) [@Daniele\_Renda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniele_Renda)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-elasticsearch-6-5-nested-boolean-queries-from-sql/166206/1 "2019-01-29T16:13:15Z")

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I've this quite simple SQL query:

```auto
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE 
((sphereMin>=-17 AND sphereMax<=5) OR sphereMin<=-17)
AND
((sphereMax<=5 AND sphereMax>=-17) OR sphereMax>=-17)

```

I have to translate that query to ES using high level API. This is the relevant code:

```auto
 SearchSourceBuilder searchBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder();
 BoolQueryBuilder boolQueryBuilder = boolQuery();

 BoolQueryBuilder booleanQuery1 = boolQuery();
 BoolQueryBuilder subQuery1a = boolQuery();
 booleanQuery1.must(subQuery1a);
 RangeQueryBuilder subQuery1b = null;

subQuery1a.must(rangeQuery("sphereMIn").gte(-17));
subQuery1a.must(rangeQuery("sphereMax").lte(5));
subQuery1b = rangeQuery("sphereMin").lte(-17);

booleanQuery1.should(subQuery1b);

BoolQueryBuilder booleanQuery2 = boolQuery();
BoolQueryBuilder subQuery2a = boolQuery();
booleanQuery2.must(subQuery2a);
RangeQueryBuilder subQuery2b = null;

subQuery2a.must(rangeQuery("sphereMax").gte(-17));
subQuery2a.must(rangeQuery("sphereMax").lte(5));
subQuery2b = rangeQuery("sphereMax").gte(5);

booleanQuery2.should(subQuery2b);

boolQueryBuilder.filter(booleanQuery1);
boolQueryBuilder.filter(booleanQuery2);
searchBuilder.query(boolQueryBuilder);
SearchRequest searchRequest = Requests.searchRequest(indexName).allowPartialSearchResults(true)
                .source(searchBuilder).routing(routing);

```

The JSON created from that code is:

```auto
{
  "bool" : {
    "filter" : [     
      {
        "bool" : {
          "must" : [
            {
              "bool" : {
                "must" : [
                  {
                    "range" : {
                      "sphereMin" : {
                        "from" : "-17",
                        "to" : null,
                        "include_lower" : true,
                        "include_upper" : true,
                        "boost" : 1.0
                      }
                    }
                  },
                  {
                    "range" : {
                      "sphereMax" : {
                        "from" : null,
                        "to" : "5",
                        "include_lower" : true,
                        "include_upper" : true,
                        "boost" : 1.0
                      }
                    }
                  }
                ],
                "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
                "boost" : 1.0
              }
            }
          ],
          "should" : [
            {
              "range" : {
                "sphereMin" : {
                  "from" : null,
                  "to" : "-17",
                  "include_lower" : true,
                  "include_upper" : true,
                  "boost" : 1.0
                }
              }
            }
          ],
          "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
          "boost" : 1.0
        }
      },
      {
        "bool" : {
          "must" : [
            {
              "bool" : {
                "must" : [
                  {
                    "range" : {
                      "sphereMax" : {
                        "from" : "-17",
                        "to" : null,
                        "include_lower" : true,
                        "include_upper" : true,
                        "boost" : 1.0
                      }
                    }
                  },
                  {
                    "range" : {
                      "sphereMax" : {
                        "from" : null,
                        "to" : "5",
                        "include_lower" : true,
                        "include_upper" : true,
                        "boost" : 1.0
                      }
                    }
                  }
                ],
                "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
                "boost" : 1.0
              }
            }
          ],
          "should" : [
            {
              "range" : {
                "sphereMax" : {
                  "from" : "5",
                  "to" : null,
                  "include_lower" : true,
                  "include_upper" : true,
                  "boost" : 1.0
                }
              }
            }
          ],
          "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
          "boost" : 1.0
        }
      }
    ],
    "adjust_pure_negative" : true,
    "boost" : 1.0
  }
}

```

It looks right to me but that query doesn't return the same data of the SQL query. What am I doing wrong?

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-elasticsearch-6-5-nested-boolean-queries-from-sql/166206/2 "2019-02-26T16:13:16Z")

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