Writing a NEST query to sort aggregation buckets by score

Question

What I want is to create an aggregation bucket for each unitId (which is a field in my document). I want each bucket to be ordered by the max score in that bucket. I have written the following query which does what I want:

 "aggs": {
    "UnitAggregationBucket": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "unitId",
        "size": 10,
        "order": {
          "max_score": "desc"
        }
      },
      "aggs": {
        "max_score": {
          "max": {
            "script": "_score"
          }
        }
      }
    }

I am using script to find the max score per bucket, in a sub-aggregation. I don't know how to write the above query using NEST?

Answer 1

Upadate:

This is the answer that I got from Elastic Community:

With 6.x, this would be something like:

var client = new ElasticClient();

var searchResponse = client.Search<object>(s => s
    .Aggregations(a => a
          .Terms("UnitAggregationBucket", t => t
              .Field("unitId")
          .Size(10)
          .Order(o => o
              .Descending("maximum_score")
          )           
            .Aggregations(aa => aa
              .Max("maximum_score", m => m
                  .Script("_score")
              )
          )
      )
  ) 
);

var termsAgg = searchResponse.Aggregations.Terms("UnitAggregationBucket");

foreach(var bucket in termsAgg.Buckets)
{     
    // do something with buckets  
    var maxScore = bucket.Max("maximum_score").Value; 
}

Note that you can't use max_score for the name of the aggregation as it's a reserved keyword name in the client, which the client uses in its heuristics based aggregation response JSON deserialization method.

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Original Answer

I managed to write the following NEST Query:

var unitAggregations = new TermsAggregation("UnitAggregationBucket")
{
    Size 10,
    Field = Field<MyDocument>(p => p.UnitId),
    Order = new List<TermsOrder>
    {
        new TermsOrder()
        {
            Key = "max_score_in_bucket",
            Order = SortOrder.Descending
        }
    },
    Aggregations = new MaxAggregation("max_score_in_bucket", string.Empty)
    {
        Script = new InlineScript("_score")
    }
};

Which produces, the following json:

"aggs": {
    "UnitAggregationBucket": {
      "aggs": {
        "max_score_in_bucket": {
          "max": {
            "script": {
              "source": "_score"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "terms": {
        "field": "unitId",
        "order": [
          {
            "max_score_in_bucket": "desc"
          }
        ],
        "size": 10
      }
    }
  }

It's not the exact json that I wanted, but it does what I want.

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Note: max_score is a reserved key-word in Elasticsearch, so I had to use a different name: max_score_in_bucket