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[[search-aggregations-metrics-top-hits-aggregation]]
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=== Top Hits Aggregation
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A `top_hits` metric aggregator keeps track of the most relevant document being aggregated. This aggregator is intended
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to be used as a sub aggregator, so that the top matching documents can be aggregated per bucket.
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TIP: We do not recommend using `top_hits` as a top-level aggregation. If you
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want to group search hits, use the <<collapse-search-results,`collapse`>>
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parameter instead.
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The `top_hits` aggregator can effectively be used to group result sets by certain fields via a bucket aggregator.
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One or more bucket aggregators determines by which properties a result set get sliced into.
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==== Options
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* `from` - The offset from the first result you want to fetch.
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* `size` - The maximum number of top matching hits to return per bucket. By default the top three matching hits are returned.
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* `sort` - How the top matching hits should be sorted. By default the hits are sorted by the score of the main query.
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==== Supported per hit features
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The top_hits aggregation returns regular search hits, because of this many per hit features can be supported:
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* <<highlighting,Highlighting>>
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* <<request-body-search-explain,Explain>>
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* <<named-queries,Named queries>>
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* <<search-fields-param,Search fields>>
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* <<source-filtering,Source filtering>>
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* <<stored-fields,Stored fields>>
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* <<script-fields,Script fields>>
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* <<docvalue-fields,Doc value fields>>
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* <<request-body-search-version,Include versions>>
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* <<request-body-search-seq-no-primary-term,Include Sequence Numbers and Primary Terms>>
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IMPORTANT: If you *only* need `docvalue_fields`, `size`, and `sort` then
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<<search-aggregations-metrics-top-metrics>> might be a more efficient choice than the Top Hits Aggregation.
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`top_hits` does not support the <<rescore,`rescore`>> parameter. Query rescoring
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applies only to search hits, not aggregation results. To change the scores used
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by aggregations, use a <<query-dsl-function-score-query,`function_score`>> or
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<<query-dsl-script-score-query,`script_score`>> query.
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==== Example
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In the following example we group the sales by type and per type we show the last sale.
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For each sale only the date and price fields are being included in the source.
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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POST /sales/_search?size=0
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{
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"aggs": {
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"top_tags": {
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"terms": {
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"field": "type",
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"size": 3
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},
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"aggs": {
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"top_sales_hits": {
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"top_hits": {
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"sort": [
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{
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"date": {
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"order": "desc"
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}
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}
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],
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"_source": {
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"includes": [ "date", "price" ]
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},
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"size": 1
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[setup:sales]
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Possible response:
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[source,console-result]
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--------------------------------------------------
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{
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...
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"aggregations": {
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"top_tags": {
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"doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
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"sum_other_doc_count": 0,
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"buckets": [
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{
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"key": "hat",
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"doc_count": 3,
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"top_sales_hits": {
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"hits": {
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"total" : {
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"value": 3,
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"relation": "eq"
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},
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"max_score": null,
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"hits": [
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{
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"_index": "sales",
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"_type": "_doc",
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"_id": "AVnNBmauCQpcRyxw6ChK",
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"_source": {
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"date": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
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"price": 200
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},
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"sort": [
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1425168000000
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],
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"_score": null
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}
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]
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}
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}
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},
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{
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"key": "t-shirt",
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"doc_count": 3,
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"top_sales_hits": {
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"hits": {
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"total" : {
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"value": 3,
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"relation": "eq"
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},
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"max_score": null,
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"hits": [
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{
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"_index": "sales",
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"_type": "_doc",
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"_id": "AVnNBmauCQpcRyxw6ChL",
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"_source": {
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"date": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
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"price": 175
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},
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"sort": [
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1425168000000
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],
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"_score": null
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}
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]
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}
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}
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},
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{
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"key": "bag",
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"doc_count": 1,
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"top_sales_hits": {
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"hits": {
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"total" : {
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"value": 1,
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"relation": "eq"
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},
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"max_score": null,
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"hits": [
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{
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"_index": "sales",
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"_type": "_doc",
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"_id": "AVnNBmatCQpcRyxw6ChH",
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"_source": {
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"date": "2015/01/01 00:00:00",
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"price": 150
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},
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"sort": [
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1420070400000
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],
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"_score": null
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}
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]
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}
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}
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}
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]
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/\.\.\./"took": $body.took,"timed_out": false,"_shards": $body._shards,"hits": $body.hits,/]
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/AVnNBmauCQpcRyxw6ChK/$body.aggregations.top_tags.buckets.0.top_sales_hits.hits.hits.0._id/]
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/AVnNBmauCQpcRyxw6ChL/$body.aggregations.top_tags.buckets.1.top_sales_hits.hits.hits.0._id/]
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/AVnNBmatCQpcRyxw6ChH/$body.aggregations.top_tags.buckets.2.top_sales_hits.hits.hits.0._id/]
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==== Field collapse example
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Field collapsing or result grouping is a feature that logically groups a result set into groups and per group returns
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top documents. The ordering of the groups is determined by the relevancy of the first document in a group. In
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Elasticsearch this can be implemented via a bucket aggregator that wraps a `top_hits` aggregator as sub-aggregator.
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In the example below we search across crawled webpages. For each webpage we store the body and the domain the webpage
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belong to. By defining a `terms` aggregator on the `domain` field we group the result set of webpages by domain. The
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`top_hits` aggregator is then defined as sub-aggregator, so that the top matching hits are collected per bucket.
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Also a `max` aggregator is defined which is used by the `terms` aggregator's order feature to return the buckets by
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relevancy order of the most relevant document in a bucket.
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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POST /sales/_search
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{
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"query": {
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"match": {
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"body": "elections"
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}
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},
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"aggs": {
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"top_sites": {
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"terms": {
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"field": "domain",
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"order": {
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"top_hit": "desc"
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}
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},
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"aggs": {
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"top_tags_hits": {
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"top_hits": {}
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},
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"top_hit" : {
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"max": {
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"script": {
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"source": "_score"
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[setup:sales]
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At the moment the `max` (or `min`) aggregator is needed to make sure the buckets from the `terms` aggregator are
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ordered according to the score of the most relevant webpage per domain. Unfortunately the `top_hits` aggregator
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can't be used in the `order` option of the `terms` aggregator yet.
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==== top_hits support in a nested or reverse_nested aggregator
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If the `top_hits` aggregator is wrapped in a `nested` or `reverse_nested` aggregator then nested hits are being returned.
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Nested hits are in a sense hidden mini documents that are part of regular document where in the mapping a nested field type
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has been configured. The `top_hits` aggregator has the ability to un-hide these documents if it is wrapped in a `nested`
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or `reverse_nested` aggregator. Read more about nested in the <<nested,nested type mapping>>.
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If nested type has been configured a single document is actually indexed as multiple Lucene documents and they share
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the same id. In order to determine the identity of a nested hit there is more needed than just the id, so that is why
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nested hits also include their nested identity. The nested identity is kept under the `_nested` field in the search hit
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and includes the array field and the offset in the array field the nested hit belongs to. The offset is zero based.
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Let's see how it works with a real sample. Considering the following mapping:
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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PUT /sales
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{
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"mappings": {
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"properties": {
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"tags": { "type": "keyword" },
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"comments": { <1>
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"type": "nested",
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"properties": {
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"username": { "type": "keyword" },
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"comment": { "type": "text" }
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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<1> The `comments` is an array that holds nested documents under the `product` object.
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And some documents:
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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PUT /sales/_doc/1?refresh
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{
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"tags": [ "car", "auto" ],
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"comments": [
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{ "username": "baddriver007", "comment": "This car could have better brakes" },
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{ "username": "dr_who", "comment": "Where's the autopilot? Can't find it" },
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{ "username": "ilovemotorbikes", "comment": "This car has two extra wheels" }
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]
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[continued]
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It's now possible to execute the following `top_hits` aggregation (wrapped in a `nested` aggregation):
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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POST /sales/_search
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{
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"query": {
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"term": { "tags": "car" }
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},
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"aggs": {
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"by_sale": {
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"nested": {
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"path": "comments"
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},
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"aggs": {
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"by_user": {
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"terms": {
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"field": "comments.username",
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"size": 1
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},
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"aggs": {
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"by_nested": {
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"top_hits": {}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[continued]
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// TEST[s/_search/_search\?filter_path=aggregations.by_sale.by_user.buckets/]
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Top hits response snippet with a nested hit, which resides in the first slot of array field `comments`:
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[source,console-result]
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--------------------------------------------------
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{
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...
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"aggregations": {
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"by_sale": {
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"by_user": {
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"buckets": [
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{
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"key": "baddriver007",
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"doc_count": 1,
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"by_nested": {
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"hits": {
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"total" : {
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"value": 1,
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"relation": "eq"
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},
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"max_score": 0.3616575,
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"hits": [
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{
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"_index": "sales",
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"_type" : "_doc",
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"_id": "1",
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"_nested": {
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"field": "comments", <1>
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"offset": 0 <2>
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},
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"_score": 0.3616575,
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"_source": {
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"comment": "This car could have better brakes", <3>
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"username": "baddriver007"
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}
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}
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]
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}
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}
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}
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...
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]
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/\.\.\.//]
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<1> Name of the array field containing the nested hit
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<2> Position if the nested hit in the containing array
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<3> Source of the nested hit
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If `_source` is requested then just the part of the source of the nested object is returned, not the entire source of the document.
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Also stored fields on the *nested* inner object level are accessible via `top_hits` aggregator residing in a `nested` or `reverse_nested` aggregator.
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Only nested hits will have a `_nested` field in the hit, non nested (regular) hits will not have a `_nested` field.
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The information in `_nested` can also be used to parse the original source somewhere else if `_source` isn't enabled.
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If there are multiple levels of nested object types defined in mappings then the `_nested` information can also be hierarchical
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in order to express the identity of nested hits that are two layers deep or more.
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In the example below a nested hit resides in the first slot of the field `nested_grand_child_field` which then resides in
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the second slow of the `nested_child_field` field:
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[source,js]
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--------------------------------------------------
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...
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"hits": {
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"total" : {
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"value": 2565,
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"relation": "eq"
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},
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"max_score": 1,
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"hits": [
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{
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"_index": "a",
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"_type": "b",
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"_id": "1",
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"_score": 1,
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"_nested" : {
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"field" : "nested_child_field",
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"offset" : 1,
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"_nested" : {
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"field" : "nested_grand_child_field",
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"offset" : 0
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}
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}
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"_source": ...
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},
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...
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]
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}
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...
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--------------------------------------------------
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// NOTCONSOLE
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