ElasticSearch - Single match to multiple - elasticsearch

Question

Note that I am a complete newbie with ElasticSearch and I'm on a time crunch. I've got the query below:
{
    "query": {
        "filtered": {
            "query": {
                "match": {
                    "state": "VA"
                }
            },
            "filter": {
                "and": [
                    {
                        "bool": {
                            "must": [
                                {
                                    "match": {
                                        "status": "Active"
                                    }
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "sort": [
        "dom"
    ],
    "size": 1
}
At the moment, the codebase only supports searching for items with one state in particular. I am trying to modify it to support a list of possible state values. Now, I've seen where one can use should and terms but the results for both are empty data sets.
I've tried looking this up but examples I've seen either don't work, or have very poorly explained (if at all) solutions, or depend on reading and absorbing pages of documentation (for which I simply do not have the time). How would I modify the top query to search for multiple values?
Update
Running the following:
curl -XGET localhost:9200/listings/_mapping/listing/field/state?pretty
I have acquired this mapping:
{
"listings" : {
"mappings" : {
"listing" : {
"state" : {
"full_name" : "state",
"mapping" : {
"state" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Update 2
I've updated the mapping to set it to not_analyzed and enabled the store option. Data has been reimported. The new request looks like this:
{
"query":{
"filtered":{
"filter":{
"and":[
{
"bool":{
"should":[
{
"terms":{
"state":["VA","MD"]
}
}
]
}
},{
"bool":{
"must":[
{
"match":{
"status":"Active"
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
},
"sort":["dom"],
"size":1
}

Answer 1

Did you try replacing the inner "query" for your "reverse engineered" query?
Something like this:
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"state": "VA"
}
},
{
"match": {
"state": "MD"
}
}
]
}
},
"filter": {
"and": [
{
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"status": "Active"
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
},
"sort": [
"dom"
],
"size": 1
}
By the way, this query is a bit messy. You could reestrucuture it combining the "must" and "should" clauses under a single "bool". You could then discard the "filtered" query and use the single "bool" immediately under root "query" tag, or discard "query" section of "filtered" and use only the "filter" part.