OpenSearch/docs/java-api/aggs.asciidoc
Zachary Tong 6ae6f57d39
[7.x Backport] Force selection of calendar or fixed intervals (#41906)
The date_histogram accepts an interval which can be either a calendar
interval (DST-aware, leap seconds, arbitrary length of months, etc) or
fixed interval (strict multiples of SI units). Unfortunately this is inferred
by first trying to parse as a calendar interval, then falling back to fixed
if that fails.

This leads to confusing arrangement where `1d` == calendar, but
`2d` == fixed.  And if you want a day of fixed time, you have to
specify `24h` (e.g. the next smallest unit).  This arrangement is very
error-prone for users.

This PR adds `calendar_interval` and `fixed_interval` parameters to any
code that uses intervals (date_histogram, rollup, composite, datafeed, etc).
Calendar only accepts calendar intervals, fixed accepts any combination of
units (meaning `1d` can be used to specify `24h` in fixed time), and both
are mutually exclusive.

The old interval behavior is deprecated and will throw a deprecation warning.
It is also mutually exclusive with the two new parameters. In the future the
old dual-purpose interval will be removed.

The change applies to both REST and java clients.
2019-05-20 12:07:29 -04:00

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[[java-aggs]]
== Aggregations
Elasticsearch provides a full Java API to play with aggregations. See the
{ref}/search-aggregations.html[Aggregations guide].
Use the factory for aggregation builders (`AggregationBuilders`) and add each aggregation
you want to compute when querying and add it to your search request:
[source,java]
--------------------------------------------------
SearchResponse sr = node.client().prepareSearch()
.setQuery( /* your query */ )
.addAggregation( /* add an aggregation */ )
.execute().actionGet();
--------------------------------------------------
Note that you can add more than one aggregation. See
{ref}/search-search.html[Search Java API] for details.
To build aggregation requests, use `AggregationBuilders` helpers. Just import them
in your class:
[source,java]
--------------------------------------------------
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregationBuilders;
--------------------------------------------------
=== Structuring aggregations
As explained in the
{ref}/search-aggregations.html[Aggregations guide], you can define
sub aggregations inside an aggregation.
An aggregation could be a metrics aggregation or a bucket aggregation.
For example, here is a 3 levels aggregation composed of:
* Terms aggregation (bucket)
* Date Histogram aggregation (bucket)
* Average aggregation (metric)
[source,java]
--------------------------------------------------
SearchResponse sr = node.client().prepareSearch()
.addAggregation(
AggregationBuilders.terms("by_country").field("country")
.subAggregation(AggregationBuilders.dateHistogram("by_year")
.field("dateOfBirth")
.calendarInterval(DateHistogramInterval.YEAR)
.subAggregation(AggregationBuilders.avg("avg_children").field("children"))
)
)
.execute().actionGet();
--------------------------------------------------
=== Metrics aggregations
include::aggregations/metrics.asciidoc[]
=== Bucket aggregations
include::aggregations/bucket.asciidoc[]