[[search-aggregations-pipeline-bucket-selector-aggregation]]
=== Bucket selector aggregation
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<titleabbrev>Bucket selector</titleabbrev>
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A parent pipeline aggregation which executes a script which determines whether the current bucket will be retained
in the parent multi-bucket aggregation. The specified metric must be numeric and the script must return a boolean value.
If the script language is `expression` then a numeric return value is permitted. In this case 0.0 will be evaluated as `false`
and all other values will evaluate to true.

NOTE: The bucket_selector aggregation, like all pipeline aggregations, executes after all other sibling aggregations. This means that
using the bucket_selector aggregation to filter the returned buckets in the response does not save on execution time running the aggregations.

==== Syntax

A `bucket_selector` aggregation looks like this in isolation:

[source,js]
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{
  "bucket_selector": {
    "buckets_path": {
      "my_var1": "the_sum",                     <1>
      "my_var2": "the_value_count"
    },
    "script": "params.my_var1 > params.my_var2"
  }
}
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// NOTCONSOLE
<1> Here, `my_var1` is the name of the variable for this buckets path to use in the script, `the_sum` is the path to
the metrics to use for that variable.

[[bucket-selector-params]]
.`bucket_selector` Parameters
[options="header"]
|===
|Parameter Name |Description |Required |Default Value
|`script` |The script to run for this aggregation. The script can be inline, file or indexed. (see <<modules-scripting>>
for more details) |Required |
|`buckets_path` |A map of script variables and their associated path to the buckets we wish to use for the variable
(see <<buckets-path-syntax>> for more details) |Required |
|`gap_policy` |The policy to apply when gaps are found in the data (see <<gap-policy>> for more
 details)|Optional |`skip`
|===

The following snippet only retains buckets where the total sales for the month is more than 200:

[source,console]
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POST /sales/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "sales_per_month": {
      "date_histogram": {
        "field": "date",
        "calendar_interval": "month"
      },
      "aggs": {
        "total_sales": {
          "sum": {
            "field": "price"
          }
        },
        "sales_bucket_filter": {
          "bucket_selector": {
            "buckets_path": {
              "totalSales": "total_sales"
            },
            "script": "params.totalSales > 200"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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// TEST[setup:sales]

And the following may be the response:

[source,console-result]
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{
   "took": 11,
   "timed_out": false,
   "_shards": ...,
   "hits": ...,
   "aggregations": {
      "sales_per_month": {
         "buckets": [
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/01/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1420070400000,
               "doc_count": 3,
               "total_sales": {
                   "value": 550.0
               }
            },<1>
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1425168000000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "total_sales": {
                   "value": 375.0
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"took": 11/"took": $body.took/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"_shards": \.\.\./"_shards": $body._shards/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"hits": \.\.\./"hits": $body.hits/]

<1> Bucket for `2015/02/01 00:00:00` has been removed as its total sales was less than 200
