Search query to search in a nested type object

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I have a source document that looks like this.

   "_id" : "1",
   "_source" : {
      "Id" : "1",
      "details" : [
        {
          "propId" : "test8",
          "liked" : false,
          "updatedBy" : "userId",
          "timestamp" : "2019-12-11T23:24:59.759+0000"
        },
        {
          "propId" : "test9",
          "liked" : true,
          "updatedBy" : "userId",
          "timestamp" : "2019-12-11T23:24:59.759+0000"
        }
      ]
    }

The details object is a nested type.
I'm trying to do 2 types of searches. One is to get_by_propId and the other is to get objects from the array where liked is true

I have this query for the first type of search at least. It's returning the entire object though.

GET /listing_preferences/_search
{
    "query": {
      "nested": {
        "path": "details",
        "query": {"bool": {
          "filter": [ 
                {"match": {"_id": "1"}},
                {"match": {"details.propId": "test8"}}
            ],
        
        "adjust_pure_negative": true,
        "boost": 1
    }}
  }
    
}

}

Is it possible to get the two type of searches working without any parent-child relationship?

2

For the part 1 where you want to get only the nested documents that matches the id to be returned, all you have to do is to use inner_hits inside the nested query. This will add an additional key inner_hits in the response under which you'll get only those nested documents which matched the query.

GET /listing_preferences/_search
{
  "query": {
    "nested": {
      "inner_hits": {}, 
      "path": "details",
      "query": {
        "bool": {
          "filter": [
            {
              "match": {
                "_id": "1"
              }
            },
            {
              "match": {
                "details.propId": "test8"
              }
            }
          ],
          "adjust_pure_negative": true,
          "boost": 1
        }
      }
    }
  }

For the second part i.e. to get only the nested documents where value of liked field is true you can create a similar query for the field liked and use inner_hits as in the above query.

3

Thank you. That's exactly what I wanted. I got it to work using inner_hits.

I do have a similar question question though. Is it possible to do something similar if I had a map of objects instead of a nested object? So suppose if my source looked like the following:

        "_id" : "1",
        "_source" : {
          "Id" : "1",
          "test29" : {
            "propId" : "test29",
            "liked" : false,
            "updatedBy" : "userId"
          },
          "test30" : {
            "updatedBy" : "userId",
            "propId" : "test30",
            "liked" : true
          },
          "test31" : {
            "updatedBy" : "userId",
            "propId" : "test31",
            "liked" : true
          }
        }

Is it still possible to get the two queries to work?

4

Inner hits works for parent-child relationship or nested objects. If the field is of object type you won't be able to apply same to it.