Elastic search query to return documents matching all elements in an array - elasticsearch

Question

I have a structure similar to this:
Document 1:
nestedobject: {
uniqueid: "12345",
field: [ {id: 1,
color: blue,
fruit:banana},
{id: 2,
color: red,
fruit:apple},
]
}
Document 2: (in same index)
nestedobject: {
uniqueid:23456,
field: [ {id: 3,
color: blue,
fruit:banana},
{id: 4,
color: blue,
fruit:banana},
]
}
the field mappings can be seen as :
{"mappings":
"nestedobject":{
"properties":{
"uniqueid":{
"type":"text",
"fields":{
"keyword":{
"type":"keyword",
"ignore_above":256
}
}
}
"field":{
"type":"nested",
"id":{
"type":"text",
"fields":{
"keyword":{
"type":"keyword",
"ignore_above":256
}
}
},
"color":{
"type":"text",
"fields":{
"keyword":{
"type":"keyword",
"ignore_above":256
}
}
},
"fruit":{
"type":"text",
"fields":{
"keyword":{
"type":"keyword",
"ignore_above":256
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Now, I try to query this index with 2 documents and I want only the document which has all the elements in the field array with color blue and fruit as banana - NOT ATLEAST 1.
Right now, with the query, I get returned both the documents as it matches with the first element of the first document and returns that.
How to make this possible?
{
"query": {
"nested" : {
"path" : "nestedobject.field",
"query" : {
"bool" : {
"must" : [
{ "match" : {"nestedobject.field.color" : "blue"} },
{ "match" : {"nestedobject.field.fruit" : "banana"}}
]
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

Change your query to the below:
POST <your_index_name>/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"nested": {
"path": "field",
"query": {
"match":{
"field.color": "blue"
}
}
}
},
{
"nested": {
"path": "field",
"query": {
"match":{
"field.fruit": "banana"
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
Note that there are two Nested Queries inside a must clause.
Also note that, in order to make use of Exact Match, you should be using Term Queries on keyword field as shown below:
POST <your_index_name>/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"nested": {
"path": "field",
"query": {
"term": {
"field.color.keyword": "yellow"
}
}
}
},
{
"nested": {
"path": "field",
"query": {
"term": {
"field.fruit.keyword": "banana"
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
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