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sxxtony 59c35100c5 Perf: push metadata filters down to Elasticsearch (#14576)
### What problem does this PR solve?

Fixes #14412.

`common.metadata_utils.meta_filter` evaluates user-defined metadata
conditions in Python after `DocMetadataService.get_flatted_meta_by_kbs`
loads the entire `meta_fields` table into memory. Past a few thousand
documents per knowledge base this becomes a memory bottleneck and a
wasted ES round-trip — every filter request currently fetches up to
10000 metadata rows even when the resulting `doc_ids` list is tiny.

This PR adds an ES push-down path that translates the same filter
language into a `bool` query and returns just the matching document IDs.

**Changes**

- `common/metadata_es_filter.py` *(new)*: pure-Python translator from
the RAGflow filter list to ES DSL. Covers every operator the in-memory
path supports (`=`, `≠`, `>`, `<`, `≥`, `≤`, `in`, `not in`, `contains`,
`not contains`, `start with`, `end with`, `empty`, `not empty`) with
`case_insensitive: true` on `prefix` and `wildcard` for parity with the
existing lower-cased Python comparisons. User wildcard metacharacters
are escaped before being injected into `wildcard` patterns. Negative
operators (`≠`, `not in`, `not contains`, ranges) are wrapped with an
`exists` guard so they do not accidentally match documents missing the
key, matching the legacy `if k not in metas` behaviour.
- `api/db/services/doc_metadata_service.py`: new
`DocMetadataService.filter_doc_ids_by_meta_pushdown(kb_ids, filters,
logic)` that returns the doc IDs ES matched, or `None` to signal the
caller should fall back to the in-memory path. Returns `None` when the
active doc store is Infinity (`meta_fields` is a JSON column, not a
dotted-object mapping), when any filter cannot be expressed in DSL
(`UnsupportedMetaFilter`), or when the ES request or metadata index
lookup errors.
- `common/metadata_utils.py`: `apply_meta_data_filter` accepts an
optional `kb_ids` argument. When supplied, conditions go through
push-down first via a new `_try_meta_pushdown` helper; on `None` the
function falls back to the original `meta_filter` call. Default
behaviour is unchanged for callers that don't pass `kb_ids`.
- Updated all four callers (`agent/tools/retrieval.py`,
`api/db/services/dialog_service.py` ×2,
`api/apps/services/dataset_api_service.py`, `api/apps/sdk/session.py`)
to forward `kb_ids` so the push-down path is exercised in production.
- `test/unit_test/common/test_metadata_es_filter.py` *(new)*: 35 unit
tests covering every operator's DSL shape, value coercion
(`ast.literal_eval`, lowercasing, ISO-date pass-through), wildcard
escaping, OR-logic wrapping that protects negative clauses, and the
doc-ID extractor.

**Behaviour preserved**

- The in-memory `meta_filter` is untouched and still services every
fallback case (Infinity backend, unknown operators, ES outages).
- The eligibility / credibility / issue-multiplier semantics described
in the LLM-driven `auto` and `semi_auto` modes still hand the LLM the
full in-memory `metas` dict to choose conditions from. Only the
*evaluation* of those generated conditions is pushed down.
- Existing tests in
`test/unit_test/common/test_metadata_filter_operators.py` continue to
pass (14/14).

**Test plan**

- `pytest test/unit_test/common/test_metadata_es_filter.py` — 35 passed.
- `pytest test/unit_test/common/test_metadata_filter_operators.py` — 14
passed.
- `ruff check` clean on every modified file.
- Reviewer please validate the ES query shapes against a live cluster —
particularly `case_insensitive` on `wildcard` and `prefix` (requires ES
7.10+) and the `exists` + `must_not` pairing for `≠`.

**Notes**

- The first cut caps each push-down request at 10000 results, matching
the existing `get_flatted_meta_by_kbs` limit, and logs a warning when
the cap is hit. A `search_after` follow-up would let us drop the cap
entirely once the push-down path is validated.
- Operator parity with the in-memory path is exact for the canonical
unicode operators (`≥`, `≤`, `≠`) used internally; the ASCII aliases
(`>=`, `<=`, `!=`) are normalised by `convert_conditions` before they
reach the translator.

### Type of change

- [x] Performance Improvement

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Co-authored-by: sxxtony <sxxtony@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-07 21:23:43 +08:00
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