ElasticSearch - Get only matching nested objects with All Top level fields in search response

If you're ok with having all root fields except the nested one and then only the matching inner hits in the nested field, then we can re-use the previous answer like this by specifying a slightly more involved source filtering parameter:

{
  "_source": {
    "includes": [ "*" ],
    "excludes": [ "users" ]
  },
  "query": {
    "nested": {
      "path": "users",
      "inner_hits": {        <---- this is where the magic happens
        "_source": [
          "name", "surname"
        ]
      },
      "query": {
        "bool": {
          "must": [
            {
              "term": {
                "users.name": "abc"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}