Hi Hannes,

I actually wanted to find parent with no child, but I modified your query 
accordingly and it is working!

Thanks! :)
Ishan

On Saturday, May 24, 2014 4:52:56 PM UTC+5:30, Hannes Korte wrote:
>
> Hi Ishan, 
>
> I usually do that using a query like this: 
>
> { 
>   "query" : { 
>     "constant_score" : { 
>       "filter" : { 
>         "not" : { 
>           "filter" : { 
>             "has_parent" : { 
>               "query" : { 
>                 "match_all" : { } 
>               }, 
>               "parent_type" : "### PARENT TYPE ###" 
>             } 
>           } 
>         } 
>       } 
>     } 
>   } 
> } 
>
> Good luck! Better test the query before deleting! ;) 
>
> Best regards, 
> Hannes 
>
>
> On 23.05.2014 13:03, Ishan Durugkar wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I am new to elasticsearch. I was trying to create a parent-child mapping 
> > where the children would be frequently added and removed. 
> > Every Parent should have at least one child. 
> > 
> > What I want to do is, if a child is deleted, I want to check if the 
> parent 
> > has other children documents, and if not, delete that parent document. 
> > How do I do this? 
> > 
> > I was trying a delete by query, but I am not sure which query I should 
> send. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the help! :) 
> > 
>
>

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