metadata_filter_orTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-metadata-filter-or-using-metadatafilters-with-multiple-filters-and-fi-545ff3cc

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Using MetadataFilters with multiple filters and FilterCondition.OR on Qdrant vector store returns an empty response even though each filter alone returns results.

How others solved it

THEN Instead of relying on FilterCondition.OR, perform separate queries for each filter and merge the resulting nodes. Alternatively, check that the vector store's filter implementation correctly handles OR conditions; consider using a single filter with multiple values if applicable.

# Instead of:
# query_engine = index.as_query_engine(filters=MetadataFilters(filters=[...], condition=FilterCondition.OR))
# Do:
node_sets = []
for f in [MetadataFilter(key="color", value="red"), MetadataFilter(key="alpha", value="1")]:
    engine = index.as_query_engine(filters=MetadataFilters(filters=[f]))
    nodes = engine.retrieve("query")
    node_sets.extend(nodes)
# Deduplicate if needed

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