Get only one level of documents when using path-hierarchy tokenizer

[avhvr]

Hi,

I need to search documents (employee details) that are present in a tree structure.
The number of levels in the hierarchy could be any.
.

Using path-hierarchy tokenizer and this post, I was able to index them and search them wrt to hierarchy.

PUT my_index
{
"settings": {
    "analysis": {
    "analyzer": {
        "hpath_analyzer": {
        "tokenizer": "path_hierarchy"
        }
    }
    }
},
"mappings": {
    "doc": {
    "properties": {
        "name": {"type": "text"},
        "hpath": {
        "type": "text",
        "analyzer": "hpath_analyzer"
        }
    }
    }
}
}

POST my_index/doc/root
{
"name": "Root",
"hpath": "/"
}

POST my_index/doc/branch_a
{
"name": "Branch A",
"hpath": "/root"
}

POST my_index/doc/branch_b
{
"name": "Branch B",
"hpath": "/root"
}

POST my_index/doc/leaf_c
{
"name": "Leaf C",
"hpath": "/root/branch_a"
}

POST my_index/doc/leaf_d
{
"name": "Leaf D",
"hpath": "/root/branch_a"
}

POST my_index/doc/leaf_e
{
"name": "Leaf E",
"hpath": "/root/branch_b"
}

POST my_index/doc/leaf_f
{
"name": "Leaf F",
"hpath": "/root/brach_b"
}

GET my_index/_search

GET my_index/_search
{
"query": {
    "term": {
    "hpath": "/root/branch_a"
    }
}
}

One usecase, I was not able to figure out is how do I limit the search here to only one level.

1. How do I search for only the immediate employees under "Root " such as "Branch A" and "Branch B" and not the leaves?
2. Is this the right way to index and search for hierarchical data?

Thanks,