Executing geo bounds aggregations

It's a very common scenario having a set of documents that match a query and you need to know the box that contains them. The solution to this scenario is the metric aggregation geo bounds.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

To execute curl via the command line, you need to install curl for your operative system.

To correctly execute the following command, you need an index populated with the chapter_08/populate_aggregations.sh script available in the online code.

How to do it...

1. For executing geo bounds aggregations, we will perform the following steps:We execute a query and we calculate the geo bounds on the results with a code similar to the following:

           curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-type/_search? 
           pretty&size=0' -d ' { 
                "query" : { 
                    "match_all...