metadata_filteringTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-metadata-filtering-multiple-metadatafilters-with-condition-filtercond-efcbcae8

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Multiple MetadataFilters with condition=FilterCondition.OR returns empty response in VectorStoreIndex query on Qdrant.

How others solved it

THEN Instead of relying on the built-in OR filter, perform separate queries for each metadata filter and manually merge the resulting nodes. This ensures all nodes matching any filter are retrieved.

from llama_index.vector_stores.types import MetadataFilters, MetadataFilter, FilterCondition

filters = [MetadataFilter(key='color', value='red'), MetadataFilter(key='alpha', value='1')]
nodes = []
for f in filters:
    mf = MetadataFilters(filters=[f], condition=None)
    query_engine = index.as_query_engine(filters=mf)
    nodes.extend(query_engine.retrieve('your query'))
# deduplicate nodes if needed

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