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Published inDec 2013
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Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Managing nested objects


There is a special type of embedded object: the nested one. This resolves a problem related to the Lucene indexing architecture, in which all the fields of embedded objects are viewed as a single object, because during search it is not possible to distinguish values between different embedded objects in the same multi-valued array.

If we consider the previous order example, it's not possible to disguise an item name and its quantity with the same query. We need to index them in different elements and when we join them. This entire trip is managed by nested objects and nested queries.

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You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

A nested object is defined as the standard object with the nested type.

From the example of the Mapping an object recipe, we can change the type from object to nested as shown in the following code:

{
  "order" : {
    "properties" : {
      "id" : {"type" : "string", 
      "store" : "yes", "index":"not_analyzed"},
   ...
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Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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