Multi-"match-phrase" query in Elastic Search

Question

this should be obvious to me but is not. The following two-match only the second phase (in this case, Cape Basin)

"query": {   "match_phrase": {     "contents": {       "query": "St Peter Fm",       "query": "Cape Basin"     }   } }  "query": {   "match_phrase": {     "contents": {       "query": ["St Peter Fm", "Cape Basin"]     }   } } 

while the following croaks with an error

"query": {   "match_phrase": {     "contents": {       "query": "St Peter Fm"     },     "contents": {       "query": "Cape Basin"     }   } } 

I want to match all documents that contain either phrases exactly as entered.

Answer 1

Your first query is not really a valid JSON object because you use the same field name twice.

You can use a bool must query to match both phrases:

PUT phrase/doc/1 {   "text": "St Peter Fm some other text Cape Basin" } GET phrase/_search {   "query": {     "bool": {       "must": [          {"match_phrase": {"text":  "St Peter Fm"}},          {"match_phrase": {"text":  "Cape Basin"}}       ]     }  } }