If a nested mapping contains a field with the same name as the parent document, I am never able to retrieve any hits when searching for this field. Here is the simplest example:
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On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:24:39 PM UTC-7, Matthew Higgins wrote:
If a nested mapping contains a field with the same name as the parent
document, I am never able to retrieve any hits when searching for this
field. Here is the simplest example:An article has a "title" field. Article has a nested mapping of comments,
which has the fields "author" and "title".Now create one entry:
The following returns results:
The following does not return results, because the title field name is on
both "article" and "comment":I think it's an edge case with nested mappings.
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The 'path' is not abbreviating the field name, but is a pointer to the
nested object. Use 'comments.title' for field name.
See also
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/nested-filter/
Jörg
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Thanks! I was thrown off by the fact that an example without a prefix worked.