Querying child documents by parent¶

Matching child documents by parent criteria¶

GET /department/_search
{
  "query": {
    "has_parent": {
      "parent_type": "department",
      "query": {
        "term": {
          "name.keyword": "Development"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Incorporating the parent documents' relevance scores¶

GET /department/_search
{
  "query": {
    "has_parent": {
      "parent_type": "department",
      "score": true,
      "query": {
        "term": {
          "name.keyword": "Development"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}