[[has-parent]] === Finding Children by Their Parents

While a nested query can always ((("parent-child relationship", "finding children by their parents")))return only the root document as a result, parent and child documents are independent and each can be queried independently. The has_child query allows us to return parents based on data in their children, and the has_parent query returns children based on data in their parents.((("has_parent query and filter", "query")))

It looks very similar to the has_child query. This example returns employees who work in the UK:

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GET /company/employee/_search { "query": { "has_parent": { "type": "branch", <1> "query": { "match": { "country": "UK" } } } }

}

<1> Returns children who have parents of type branch

The has_parent query also supports the score_mode,((("score_mode parameter"))) but it accepts only two settings: none (the default) and score. Each child can have only one parent, so there is no need to reduce multiple scores into a single score for the child. The choice is simply between using the score (score) or not (none).

.has_parent Filter

The has_parent filter works in the same way((("hasparent query and filter", "filter"))) as the has_parent query, except that it doesn't support the score_mode parameter. It can be used only in _filter context—such as inside a filtered query--and behaves like any other filter: it includes or excludes, but doesn't score.

While the results of a has_parent filter are not cached, the usual caching rules apply to the filter inside the has_parent filter.