Issues with Using the OR Operator in Filter Query
TLDR Mehdi inquired about using OR in a filter query and was told by Kishore Nallan that only AND is supported. Ricardo suggested the use of multisearch and dedup, while Mehdi decided to modify the document's fields.
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Jul 07, 2021 (29 months ago)
Mehdi
09:08 AMIs there a way to pass an or expression to the filter_by argument? Using "||" or "|" returns an Error 400 Could not parse the filter query
Kishore Nallan
09:09 AM1
Mehdi
09:10 AMKishore Nallan
09:11 AM&& so you can do ANDing of conditions on two different fields, but can't do OR.Kishore Nallan
09:12 AMstore_id: [100, 200, 300]
Ricardo
09:13 AMMehdi
09:37 AMKishore Nallan
09:38 AM1
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