From 7f1b21c13de09caedbe263e37fcbe40c683a60bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ugonna Okoli <ugokoli30@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 12:00:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Example for Nested field type exists query
Changes include a solution for working with a Nested field type when searching for documents missing the nested field type field as seen here https://stackoverflow.com/a/41461613/2741245
---
.../reference/query-dsl/exists-query.asciidoc | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/exists-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/exists-query.asciidoc
index 75d1b07ea3851..3f883419a8a6d 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/exists-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/exists-query.asciidoc
@@ -67,3 +67,29 @@ GET /_search
}
}
----
+
+The following search returns documents that are missing an indexed value for
+a <<nested, nested>> type `user`.
+
+[source,console]
+----
+GET /_search
+{
+ "query": {
+ "bool": {
+ "must_not": [
+ {
+ "nested": {
+ "path": "user",
+ "query": {
+ "exists": {
+ "field": "user"
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ ]
+ }
+ }
+}
+----