Nested fields and _field_names

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1

I am trying to profile fields by counting documents with each given field.
I am using 1.3.0 ES, so I thought I can use:

aggs: {
docs : {
terms : {
field : _field_names,
size : 0
}
}
}

to give a count of documents with each specific field/path.

But this returns nothing for nested fields. When I use a mapping of

a : {
type : nested,
properties: {
x : {...}
y : {...}
}
}

for document structures like

a : [
{ x : ..., y: ... },
{ x : ..., y: ... }
]

The aggregate returns nothing for x and y. Is this a bug ?

Thanks,
Peter Li

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_field_names tracks the field names of the current index document, so if
you need to be in the context of your nested documents to aggregate on
their field names. That would give something like:

GET test/_search
{
"aggs": {
"nested_docs": {
"nested": {
"path": "a"
},
"aggs": {
"top_fields": {
"terms": {
"field": "_field_names",
"size": 10
}
}
}
}
}
}

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Peter Li jenli.peter@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying to profile fields by counting documents with each given field.
I am using 1.3.0 ES, so I thought I can use:

aggs: {
docs : {
terms : {
field : _field_names,
size : 0
}
}
}

to give a count of documents with each specific field/path.

But this returns nothing for nested fields. When I use a mapping of

a : {
type : nested,
properties: {
x : {...}
y : {...}
}
}

for document structures like

a : [
{ x : ..., y: ... },
{ x : ..., y: ... }
]

The aggregate returns nothing for x and y. Is this a bug ?

Thanks,
Peter Li

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