How to search multiple generations in Elasticsearch

Question

Elasticsearch's article outlines how to find objects based on a search through one generation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/grandparents.html

GET /company/country/_search
{
  "query": {
    "has_child": {
      "type": "branch",
      "query": {
        "has_child": {
          "type": "employee",
          "query": {
            "match": {
              "hobby": "hiking"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

What if I want to also want to query the branch for the name starting with "liverpool"? How do you modify this search to find that? I keep getting format errors and I can't seem to find information about how nest the queries online.

I've already tried this (it doesn't work):

GET /company/country/_search
{
  "query": {
    "has_child": {
      "type": "branch",
      "query": {
        "has_child": {
          "type": "employee",
          "query": {
            "match": {
              "hobby": "hiking"
            }
          }
        },
        "match": {
          "name": "london"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

I got an error that said the query was malformed.

I tried bool, but it doesn't work either; I can't use has_child with a bool.

Can you share the query you have so far and the errors you get? — Val, Oct 29 '15 at 22:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '15 at 02:42

I was able to make it work with a bool query.

If I'm understanding your question correctly, this should do what you want:

POST /company/country/_search
{
   "query": {
      "has_child": {
         "type": "branch",
         "query": {
            "bool": {
               "must": [
                  {
                     "has_child": {
                        "type": "employee",
                        "query": {
                           "match": {
                              "hobby": "hiking"
                           }
                        }
                     }
                  },
                  {
                     "match": {
                        "name": "liverpool"
                     }
                  }
               ]
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

If you want the query to be an "OR" instead of an "AND", use "should" instead of "must".

Here is some code I set up to play around with the problem:

http://sense.qbox.io/gist/cf4babbbd25a3b7a26f3ea9ce9c1b686e37dbcb9

Aaah, yes. I guess I was missing the `must` – boo-urns Oct 30 '15 at 06:00 — boo-urns, Oct 30 '15 at 06:00

How to search multiple generations in Elasticsearch

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