Querystring search on array elements in Elastic Search - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to learn elasticsearch with a simple example application, that lists quotations associated with people. The example mapping might look like:
{
"people" : {
"properties" : {
"name" : { "type" : "string"},
"quotations" : { "type" : "string" }
}
}
}
Some example data might look like:
{ "name" : "Mr A",
"quotations" : [ "quotation one, this and that and these"
, "quotation two, those and that"]
}
{ "name" : "Mr B",
"quotations" : [ "quotation three, this and that"
, "quotation four, those and these"]
}
I would like to be able to use the querystring api on individual quotations, and return the people who match. For instance, I might want to find people who have a quotation that contains (this AND these) - which should return "Mr A" but not "Mr B", and so on. How can I achieve this?
EDIT1:
Andrei's answer below seems to work, with data values now looking like:
{"name":"Mr A","quotations":[{"value" : "quotation one, this and that and these"}, {"value" : "quotation two, those and that"}]}
However, I can't seem to get a query_string query to work. The following produces no results:
{
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "quotations",
"query": {
"query_string": {
"default_field": "quotations",
"query": "quotations.value:this AND these"
}
}
}
}
}
Is there a way to get a query_string query working with a nested object?
Edit2: Yes it is, see Andrei's answer.

Answer 1

For that requirement to be achieved, you need to look at nested objects, not to query a flattened list of values but individual values from that nested object. For example:
{
"mappings": {
"people": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"quotations": {
"type": "nested",
"properties": {
"value": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Values:
{"name":"Mr A","quotations":[{"value": "quotation one, this and that and these"}, {"value": "quotation two, those and that"}]}
{"name":"Mr B","quotations":[{"value": "quotation three, this and that"}, {"value": "quotation four, those and these"}]}
Query:
{
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "quotations",
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{ "match": {"quotations.value": "this"}},
{ "match": {"quotations.value": "these"}}
]
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

Unfortunately there is no good way to do that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141021073225/http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/complex-core-fields.html
When you get a document back from Elasticsearch, any arrays will be in
the same order as when you indexed the document. The _source field
that you get back contains exactly the same JSON document that you
indexed.
However, arrays are indexed — made searchable — as multi-value fields,
which are unordered. At search time you can’t refer to “the first
element” or “the last element”. Rather think of an array as a bag of
values.
In other words, it is always considering all values in the array.
This will return only Mr A
{
"query": {
"match": {
"quotations": {
"query": "quotation one",
"operator": "AND"
}
}
}
}
But this will return both Mr A & Mr B:
{
"query": {
"match": {
"quotations": {
"query": "this these",
"operator": "AND"
}
}
}
}

Answer 3

If scripting is enabled, this should work:
"script": {
"inline": "for(element in _source.quotations) { if(element == 'this' && element == 'these') {return true;} }; return false;"
}