[FIXED] How to do multiple "match" or "match_phrase" values in ElasticSearch

Issue

So ElasticSearch has the terms query, which lets me supply multiple values and return a ist of documents where field X matches any of those values.

But I want to do the same thing with match_phrase - i.e. return documents where field X contains a case insensitive match for a term with spaces. I currently do it my using an or filter (see below). But that seems like a very verbose way of doing what I want, considering that terms does something similar already.

Current method

It seems ridiculous that a query searching a single field for one of three values should be 33 lines long.

{
  "query": {
    "filtered": {
       "filter": {
           "or": {
              "filters": [
                 {
                     "query": {
                         "match_phrase": {
                            "myField1": "My first search phrase"
                         }
                     }
                 },
                 {
                     "query": {
                         "match_phrase": {
                            "myField1": "My second search phrase"
                         }
                     }
                 },
                 {
                     "query": {
                         "match_phrase": {
                            "myField1": "My third search phrase"
                         }
                     }
                 }
              ]
           }
       }
    }
  }
}

Solution

After a long night trying to figure this out myself I came up with this:

"query" : {
        "bool": {
            "should": [
               {
                   "match_phrase": {
                      "myField1": "My first search phrase"
                   }
               },
               {
                   "match_phrase": {
                      "myField1": "My second search phrase"
                   }
               }
            ]
        }
    }

Reference: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html

Answered By - Jonathon Cwik

Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (PHPFixing Admin)