Finding all objects with a certain field in ElasticSearch - elasticsearch

Question

My mapping looks like so:
"condition": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"value": {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
},
and some data I have looks like:
"condition": [
{
"name": "condition",
"value": "new",
},
{
"name": "condition",
"value": "gently-used",
}
]
How can I write a query that finds all objects within the array that have a new condition?
I have the following but I am getting 0 results back:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match_phrase": {
"attribute_condition": "new"
}
}
]
}
}
}

Answer 1

First, you need to map your condition field as a nested type.
"condition": {
"type": "nested",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "keyword" },
"value": { "type": "keyword" }
}
},
Now you're able to query each element of the condition array independently from each other. Next, you need to use the nested query and request to retrieve the inner hits and output them in the inner_hits object of the query response
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"nested": {
"path": "condition",
"query": {
"match": {
"condition.value": "new"
}
},
"inner_hits": {}
}
}
}
}
}
An example response will look like below:
{
"took" : 2,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"skipped" : 0,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : {
"value" : 1,
"relation" : "eq"
},
"max_score" : 0.6931471,
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "nested",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "Xx_LN3gBp5RUqdfAef3B",
"_score" : 0.6931471,
"_source" : {
"condition" : [
{
"name" : "condition",
"value" : "new"
},
{
"name" : "condition",
"value" : "gently-used"
}
]
},
"inner_hits" : { <--- here begins the list of inner hits
"condition" : {
"hits" : {
"total" : {
"value" : 1,
"relation" : "eq"
},
"max_score" : 0.6931471,
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "nested",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "Xx_LN3gBp5RUqdfAef3B",
"_nested" : {
"field" : "condition",
"offset" : 0
},
"_score" : 0.6931471,
"_source" : {
"name" : "condition",
"value" : "new"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
]
}
}