Deleting a parent document with no Child Documents

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1

Hi,

I am new to elasticsearch. I was trying to create a parent-child mapping
where the children would be frequently added and removed.
Every Parent should have at least one child.

What I want to do is, if a child is deleted, I want to check if the parent
has other children documents, and if not, delete that parent document.
How do I do this?

I was trying a delete by query, but I am not sure which query I should send.

Thanks for the help! :slight_smile:

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Hi Ishan,

I usually do that using a query like this:

{
"query" : {
"constant_score" : {
"filter" : {
"not" : {
"filter" : {
"has_parent" : {
"query" : {
"match_all" : { }
},
"parent_type" : "### PARENT TYPE ###"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Good luck! Better test the query before deleting! :wink:

Best regards,
Hannes

On 23.05.2014 13:03, Ishan Durugkar wrote:

Hi,

I am new to elasticsearch. I was trying to create a parent-child mapping
where the children would be frequently added and removed.
Every Parent should have at least one child.

What I want to do is, if a child is deleted, I want to check if the parent
has other children documents, and if not, delete that parent document.
How do I do this?

I was trying a delete by query, but I am not sure which query I should send.

Thanks for the help! :slight_smile:

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Hi Hannes,

I actually wanted to find parent with no child, but I modified your query
accordingly and it is working!

Thanks! :slight_smile:
Ishan

On Saturday, May 24, 2014 4:52:56 PM UTC+5:30, Hannes Korte wrote:

Hi Ishan,

I usually do that using a query like this:

{
"query" : {
"constant_score" : {
"filter" : {
"not" : {
"filter" : {
"has_parent" : {
"query" : {
"match_all" : { }
},
"parent_type" : "### PARENT TYPE ###"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Good luck! Better test the query before deleting! :wink:

Best regards,
Hannes

On 23.05.2014 13:03, Ishan Durugkar wrote:

Hi,

I am new to elasticsearch. I was trying to create a parent-child mapping
where the children would be frequently added and removed.
Every Parent should have at least one child.

What I want to do is, if a child is deleted, I want to check if the
parent
has other children documents, and if not, delete that parent document.
How do I do this?

I was trying a delete by query, but I am not sure which query I should
send.

Thanks for the help! :slight_smile:

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