Wow, this looks like exactly what I'm looking for. But I swear I spent most
of last month scouring documentation. Is this a relatively new feature? Or
am I just thick? Thanks, either way!

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Colin Goodheart-Smithe <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Take a look at the includes/excludes feature on the terms aggregation. I
> think it should help with what you are trying to achieve.
>
>
> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html#_filtering_values
>
> Colin
>
>
> On Monday, 8 December 2014 08:10:05 UTC, William Bowen wrote:
>>
>> I want to know if it is possible to filter the contents of an aggregation
>> rather than just the documents returned by the query. For instance, I have
>> a set of documents that have an array property called related concepts. I
>> want to count the number of documents for each related concept that meet my
>> search query. The resulting bucket looks like this:
>>
>> "related_concepts": {
>>     "buckets": [
>>         {
>>             "key": "foo",
>>             "doc_count": 3821
>>         },
>>         {
>>             "key": "bar",
>>             "doc_count": 3803
>>         },
>>         {
>>             "key": "other",
>>             "doc_count": 23
>>         }
>>     ]
>> }
>>
>> Now imagine that there are 2,000 related concepts, however, using a graph
>> database I know I'm interested in a specific 5 or 6. Using the example
>> above, let's say for a specific result set I want to return the bucket
>> counts only for the terms "foo" and "other" but NOT include "bar" or any
>> other buckets. Sort of like a SQL WHERE or HAVING clause.
>>
>> I tried adding a filter to the aggregation, but it only seemed to filter
>> the numbers for the aggregations, not restrict which buckets are actually
>> displayed.
>>
>> I found this for 2.0 https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/
>> issues/8110, and looks like it might solve my problem eventually (not in
>> time for deadlines!), but my use case is pretty simple. Is there anything I
>> can do in the current version of Elasticsearch to make this work? Am I
>> overlooking something?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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