Elastic search with Spring Data for Reactive Repository - Deleting based on nested attributes - elasticsearch

Question

I am using Spring data for Elastic Search and am using the ReactiveCrudRepository for stuff like finding and deleting. I noticed that with attributes that are in root and are simple objects, the deletion works (deleteByAttributeName). However if I have nested objects then it does not work.
Here's my entities
Book
#Data
#TypeAlias("book")
#Document(indexName = "book")
public class EsBook{
#Field(type = FieldType.Long)
private Long id;
#Field(type = FieldType.Nested)
private EsStats stats;
#Field(type = FieldType.Date, format = DateFormat.date)
private LocalDate publishDate;
}
Stats
#Data
#Builder
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor
#EqualsAndHashCode
public class EsStats{
#Field(type = FieldType.Double)
private Double averageRating;
#Field(type = FieldType.Integer)
private Double totalRatings;
#Field(type = FieldType.Keyword)
private String category; //this can be null
}
Here is what I have tried and is working and not working
I used ReactiveCrudRepository to delete documents in index. For all the regular fields on Book Level like id or with id and publishDate deletion works perfectly. As soon as I use embedded object like Stats, it stops working. I see the documents and the stats that I am sending match atleast visually but never finds or deletes them.
I tried to use EqualsAndHashcode in the Stats assuming maybe iternally somehow does not consider equal for some reason. I also tried changing double data type to int, because on looking at the elastic search document, I see that average review if whole number like 3 is save as 3 but when we send it from Java, i see in the debug 3 being shown as 3.0, so I was doubting if that is the case, but does not seem so. Even changing the datatype to int deletion does not work.
public interface ReactiveBookRepository extends ReactiveCrudRepository<EsBook, String> {
Mono<Void> deleteById(long id); //working
Mono<Void> deleteByIdAndPublishDate(long id, LocalDate publishDate); //Nor working
Mono<Void> deleteByIdAndStats(long id, LocalDate startDate);
}
Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

Have you verified that your Elasticsearch index mapping matches your Spring Data annotations?
Verify that the index mapping defines the stats field as a nested field type.
If not, then try changing your Spring annotation to:
#Field(type = FieldType.Object)
private EsStats stats;