Hey Neil, Sounds interesting. For these questions, I think it's helpful to consider the interface you're building for the user. What's the fundamental "thing" being shown in a list of search results?
Nested documents can be convenient, but generally I think the modeling for this kind of scenario works best when you denormalize the data as much as possible. In that approach, you'd index the children as individual documents, and save the parent attributes onto them. Field Collapsing can help if you're matching against multiple Comments but are more interested in showing and sorting the parent Issues they belong to. http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/top-hits.html On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wanting to search a series of documents which have a nested object > nature. For instance a Github issue. I'm needing to ideally use the ES search > lite > <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/search-lite.html> > syntax > > I have some top level data (assignee, created_at etc) and some nested > items, think comments or commits etc. > > Dumping an entire document into ES makes it easily searchable but some > weird side effects come up, most notably around sorting on the nested > comments. > > What's the best practice for this kind of document search? Is it better to > split the comments into seperate documents with issue meta data attached, > or via each issue being a big dump in a document? > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to search for an document, and sort by one of > the attributes of the document, either at the top level, or nested inside > one of the comments. > > Any ideas? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/42a3fffb-97ee-43e1-be68-02cd44bd9a28%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/42a3fffb-97ee-43e1-be68-02cd44bd9a28%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Nick Zadrozny Cofounder, CEO One More Cloud websolr.com • bonsai.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPTxa80VireENz2a9p2X246_0pq3Yn_Q7hZBb%3Ddh7NGuNe28LA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
