combine terms and bool query in elasticsearch - elasticsearch

Question

I would like to do a search in an elasticsearch index but only for a list of ids. I can select the ids with a terms query
{
"query": {
"terms": {
"_id": list_of_ids
}
}
}
Now I want to search in the resulting list, which can be done with a query like this
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {}
}
}
}
My question is how can I combine those two queries?
One solution I found is to add the ids into the must query like this
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {}
"should": [{
"term": {
"_id": id1
},
"term": {
"_id": id2
}]
}
}
}
}
which works fine. However, if the list of ids is very large it can lead to errors.
elasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: RequestError(400, 'search_phase_execution_exception', 'failed to create query:
I am wondering whether there is a more compact way to write such a query? I think the error above is caused by my query just being too long since I added thousands of term searches... there must be a way to just provide an array, like in the terms query?

Answer 1

solved it
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {},
"filter": {
"terms": {
"_id": list_of_ids
}
}
}
}
}
sorry I am a bit of a newbie to elasticsearch...

Answer 2

You can also use IDs query, which returns documents based on their IDs.
Adding a working example with index data, search query, and search result.
Index Data:
{
"name":"buiscuit",
"cost":"55",
"discount":"20"
}
{
"name":"multi grain bread",
"cost":"55",
"discount":"20"
}
Search Query:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"match": {
"name": "bread"
}
},
"filter": {
"ids": {
"values": [
"1",
"2",
"4"
]
}
}
}
}
}
Search Result:
"hits": [
{
"_index": "65431114",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "1",
"_score": 0.5754429,
"_source": {
"name": "multi grain bread",
"cost": "55",
"discount": "20"
}
}
]