added fq() for passing in an object or multiple filters

lib/query.js

@@ -267,6 +267,34 @@ Query.prototype.matchFilter = function (field, value) {
   return self;
 };
 
+/**
+ * wrapper function for matchFilter, accepting either an object with `field` and `value` properties
+ * or an array containing such objects to be mapped on matchFilter
+ *
+ * @param {Object|Array} filters - Object or an array of objects with `field` and `value` properties
+ *
+ * @return {Query}
+ * 
+ * @throws {Error}
+ * @api public
+ *
+ * @example
+ * var query = client.createQuery();
+ * query.q({ '*' : '*' }).fq({field: 'id', value: 100})
+ * query.q({ '*' : '*' }).fq([{field: 'id', value: 100}, {field: 'name', value: 'John'}])
+ */
+ Query.prototype.fq = function (filters) {
+  const self = this
+  if (filters instanceof Array) {
+    filters.map(f => this.matchFilter(f.field, f.value))
+    return self
+  }
+  if (filters instanceof Object) return this.matchFilter(filters.field, filters.value)
+  else {
+    throw new Error('unknown type for filter in fq()')
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Specify a set of fields to return.
  *

test/core-query-test.js

@@ -266,5 +266,43 @@ describe('Client#createQuery', function () {
         done();
       });
     });
+
+    it('query with multiple match-filters', function (done) {
+      const query = client
+        .createQuery()
+        .q('*:*')
+        .fq([{field: 'id', value: '19700506.173.85'}, {field: 'title', value: 'testvalue'}])
+        .debugQuery();
+
+      client.search(query, function (err, data) {
+        sassert.ok(err, data);
+        assert.deepEqual(data.responseHeader.params, {
+          debugQuery: 'true',
+          q: '*:*',
+          fq: ['id:19700506.173.85', 'title:testvalue'],
+          wt: 'json',
+        });
+        done();
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('query with object match-filter', function (done) {
+      const query = client
+        .createQuery()
+        .q('*:*')
+        .fq({field: 'id', value: '19700506.173.85'})
+        .debugQuery();
+
+      client.search(query, function (err, data) {
+        sassert.ok(err, data);
+        assert.deepEqual(data.responseHeader.params, {
+          debugQuery: 'true',
+          q: '*:*',
+          fq: 'id:19700506.173.85',
+          wt: 'json',
+        });
+        done();
+      });
+    });
   });
 });