Elasticsearch: How to use two different multiple matching fields?

Question

I want to do something much like the \'and\' filter example except with terms with a \'should\' in each one, instead of the field types in the example. I came up with the follow

Answer 1

I think you don't need to specify bool filter. If I understand right what you are trying to accomplish, terms filter with and filter should be enough. So something like this:

# Delete index
#
curl -s -X DELETE 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test' ; echo

# Create index
#
curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/' -d '{
  "mappings": {
    "document": {
      "properties": {
        "color": {
          "type": "string",
          "index": "not_analyzed"
        },
        "fruit": {
          "type": "string",
          "index": "not_analyzed"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}' ; echo

# Index some documents
#
curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/1?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "apple",
  "color" : "red"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/2?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "apple",
  "color" : "yellow"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/3?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "apple",
  "color" : "green"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/4?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "banana",
  "color" : "green"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/5?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "banana",
  "color" : "yellow"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/6?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "pear",
  "color" : "green"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/7?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "pear",
  "color" : "yellow"
}' ; echo

curl -s -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/document/7?pretty=true' -d '{
  "fruit" : "pear",
  "color" : "red"
}' ; echo


# Refresh index
#
curl -s -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/_refresh'; echo


# This query should return only red apples and pears
#
curl -s -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/bool-filter-test/_search?pretty' -d '{
  "query" : {
    "match_all" : { }
  },
  "filter" : {
    "and" : [
      {
        "terms" : { "fruit" : ["apple", "pear"] }
      },
      {
        "terms" : { "color" : ["red"] }
      }
    ]
  }
}'

You can even specify execution to bool (which according to documentation) Generates a term filter (which is cached) for each term, and wraps those in a bool filter. The bool filter itself is not cached as it can operate very quickly on the cached term filters.

Answer 2

Each bool query clause can contain multiple clauses. A terms query (http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/terms-query/) is an easy way to specify that the query should match any of a list of terms. Here's that uses terms queries to say fruit must be one of orange, apple, pear and color must be one of red, yellow, green, in addition to the ids query you had before:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "ids": {
            "type": "foo",
            "values": [
              "fff",
              "bar",
              "baz"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "terms": {
            "fruit": [ "orange", "apple","pear" ],
            "minimum_should_match": 1
          }
        },
        {
          "terms": {
            "color": [ "red", "yellow", "green" ],
            "minimum_should_match": 1
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}