Aggs: Fix significant terms not finding background documents for nested fields #128472
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ivancea added >bug :Analytics/Aggregations 
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To help a bit with the review, these tests have:
- Setup: Index with a type ("normal" and "outlier"), and a value (1 and 2). That value is replicated 6 times (integer and keyword, and then as a nested and doubly nested field. Every "value" field has the same value in each document, so testing against each of them should render the same results.
- A first "Checking" test to ensure all data ingested is correct
- Test cases for the 3 kinds of values (normal, nested, doubly nested). Each of them do a sig_terms expecting the same results (except for the background_filter one)
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| var nestedParentField = context.nestedLookup().getNestedParent(fieldType.name()); | ||
| if (nestedParentField != null) { |
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Not sure if this is the best way to detect a nested field, but it worked well, and I didn't find any edge case
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@martijnvg, do you know the most right way to do this?
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I wonder if buildQuery should take the nested context into account? That sounds like a bigger change than I'd like to make to aggs at the moment.
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It has been some time since I worked on nested related functionality. Assuming that fieldType.name() returns a path, then I think this is the right way to figure out the parent field.
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ivancea changed the title ivancea added auto-backport 
…ed fields (elastic#128472) Closes elastic#101163 Fixes the `significant_terms` aggregation not working correctly on nested fields.
…ed fields (elastic#128472) Closes elastic#101163 Fixes the `significant_terms` aggregation not working correctly on nested fields.
…ed fields (elastic#128472) Closes elastic#101163 Fixes the `significant_terms` aggregation not working correctly on nested fields.
…ed fields (elastic#128472) Closes elastic#101163 Fixes the `significant_terms` aggregation not working correctly on nested fields.
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Closes #101163
Fixes the
significant_termsaggregation not working correctly on nested fields.It was returning buckets with
bg_count: 0, meaning it wasn't detecting any background document.The filter it used to check for background documents was a plain TermsQuery, which wouldn't work on Nested fields.
The PR adds an extra NestedQuery wrapping the Terms in case the field is inside a Nested parent.
SignificantTextwas also checked, but it's explicitly documented that it doesn't work on text fields, as it needs to access the source.TBD: Backports