Elasticsearch : filter results based on the date range - elasticsearch

Question

I'm using Elasticsearch 6.6, trying to extract multiple results/records based on multiple values (email_address) passed to the query (Bool) on a date range. For ex: I want to extract information about few employees based on their email_address (annie#test.com, charles#test.com, heman#test.com) and from the period i.e project_date (2019-01-01).
I did use should expression but unfortunately it's pulling all the records from elasticsearch based on the date range i.e. it's even pulling other employees information from project_date 2019-01-01.
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{ "match": { "email_address": "annie#test.com" }},
{ "match": { "email_address": "chalavadi#test.com" }}
],
"filter": [
{ "range": { "project_date": { "gte": "2019-08-01" }}}
]
}
}
}
I also tried must expression but getting no result. Could you please help me on finding employees using their email_address with the date range?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Should(Or) clauses are optional
Quoting from this article.
"In a query, if must and filter queries are present, the should query occurrence then helps to influence the score. However, if bool query is in a filter context or has neither must nor filter queries, then at least one of the should queries must match a document."
So in your query should is only influencing the score and not actually filtering the document. You must wrap should in must, or move it in filter(if scoring not required).
GET employeeindex/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": {
"range": {
"projectdate": {
"gte": "2019-01-01"
}
}
},
"must": [
{
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"term": {
"email.raw": "abc#text.com"
}
},
{
"term": {
"email.raw": "efg#text.com"
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
}
You can also replace should clause with terms clause as in #AlwaysSunny's answer.

Answer 2

You can do it with terms and range along with your existing query inside filter in more shorter way. Your existing query doesn't work as expected because of should clause, it makes your filter weaker. Read more here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"filter": [
{
"terms": {
"email_address.keyword": [
"annie#test.com", "chalavedi#test.com"
]
}
},
{
"range": {
"project_date": {
"gte": "2019-08-01"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}