@Override
  public Query parse(QueryParseContext parseContext) throws IOException, QueryParsingException {
    XContentParser parser = parseContext.parser();

    MoreLikeThisQuery mltQuery = new MoreLikeThisQuery();
    mltQuery.setSimilarity(parseContext.searchSimilarity());
    Analyzer analyzer = null;
    List<String> moreLikeFields = null;
    boolean failOnUnsupportedField = true;
    String queryName = null;
    boolean include = false;

    XContentParser.Token token;
    String currentFieldName = null;

    List<String> likeTexts = new ArrayList<>();
    MultiTermVectorsRequest likeItems = new MultiTermVectorsRequest();

    List<String> unlikeTexts = new ArrayList<>();
    MultiTermVectorsRequest unlikeItems = new MultiTermVectorsRequest();

    while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_OBJECT) {
      if (token == XContentParser.Token.FIELD_NAME) {
        currentFieldName = parser.currentName();
      } else if (token.isValue()) {
        if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.LIKE_TEXT)) {
          likeTexts.add(parser.text());
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.LIKE)) {
          parseLikeField(parser, likeTexts, likeItems);
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.UNLIKE)) {
          parseLikeField(parser, unlikeTexts, unlikeItems);
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.MIN_TERM_FREQ)) {
          mltQuery.setMinTermFrequency(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext
            .parseFieldMatcher()
            .match(currentFieldName, Fields.MAX_QUERY_TERMS)) {
          mltQuery.setMaxQueryTerms(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.MIN_DOC_FREQ)) {
          mltQuery.setMinDocFreq(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.MAX_DOC_FREQ)) {
          mltQuery.setMaxDocFreq(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext
            .parseFieldMatcher()
            .match(currentFieldName, Fields.MIN_WORD_LENGTH)) {
          mltQuery.setMinWordLen(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext
            .parseFieldMatcher()
            .match(currentFieldName, Fields.MAX_WORD_LENGTH)) {
          mltQuery.setMaxWordLen(parser.intValue());
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.BOOST_TERMS)) {
          float boostFactor = parser.floatValue();
          if (boostFactor != 0) {
            mltQuery.setBoostTerms(true);
            mltQuery.setBoostTermsFactor(boostFactor);
          }
        } else if (parseContext
            .parseFieldMatcher()
            .match(currentFieldName, Fields.MINIMUM_SHOULD_MATCH)) {
          mltQuery.setMinimumShouldMatch(parser.text());
        } else if ("analyzer".equals(currentFieldName)) {
          analyzer = parseContext.analysisService().analyzer(parser.text());
        } else if ("boost".equals(currentFieldName)) {
          mltQuery.setBoost(parser.floatValue());
        } else if (parseContext
            .parseFieldMatcher()
            .match(currentFieldName, Fields.FAIL_ON_UNSUPPORTED_FIELD)) {
          failOnUnsupportedField = parser.booleanValue();
        } else if ("_name".equals(currentFieldName)) {
          queryName = parser.text();
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.INCLUDE)) {
          include = parser.booleanValue();
        } else {
          throw new QueryParsingException(
              parseContext, "[mlt] query does not support [" + currentFieldName + "]");
        }
      } else if (token == XContentParser.Token.START_ARRAY) {
        if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.STOP_WORDS)) {
          Set<String> stopWords = Sets.newHashSet();
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            stopWords.add(parser.text());
          }
          mltQuery.setStopWords(stopWords);
        } else if ("fields".equals(currentFieldName)) {
          moreLikeFields = new LinkedList<>();
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            String field = parser.text();
            MappedFieldType fieldType = parseContext.fieldMapper(field);
            moreLikeFields.add(fieldType == null ? field : fieldType.names().indexName());
          }
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.DOCUMENT_IDS)) {
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            if (!token.isValue()) {
              throw new IllegalArgumentException("ids array element should only contain ids");
            }
            likeItems.add(newTermVectorsRequest().id(parser.text()));
          }
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.DOCUMENTS)) {
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            if (token != XContentParser.Token.START_OBJECT) {
              throw new IllegalArgumentException("docs array element should include an object");
            }
            likeItems.add(parseDocument(parser));
          }
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.LIKE)) {
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            parseLikeField(parser, likeTexts, likeItems);
          }
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.UNLIKE)) {
          while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_ARRAY) {
            parseLikeField(parser, unlikeTexts, unlikeItems);
          }
        } else {
          throw new QueryParsingException(
              parseContext, "[mlt] query does not support [" + currentFieldName + "]");
        }
      } else if (token == XContentParser.Token.START_OBJECT) {
        if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.LIKE)) {
          parseLikeField(parser, likeTexts, likeItems);
        } else if (parseContext.parseFieldMatcher().match(currentFieldName, Fields.UNLIKE)) {
          parseLikeField(parser, unlikeTexts, unlikeItems);
        } else {
          throw new QueryParsingException(
              parseContext, "[mlt] query does not support [" + currentFieldName + "]");
        }
      }
    }

    if (likeTexts.isEmpty() && likeItems.isEmpty()) {
      throw new QueryParsingException(
          parseContext, "more_like_this requires 'like' to be specified");
    }
    if (moreLikeFields != null && moreLikeFields.isEmpty()) {
      throw new QueryParsingException(
          parseContext, "more_like_this requires 'fields' to be non-empty");
    }

    // set analyzer
    if (analyzer == null) {
      analyzer = parseContext.mapperService().searchAnalyzer();
    }
    mltQuery.setAnalyzer(analyzer);

    // set like text fields
    boolean useDefaultField = (moreLikeFields == null);
    if (useDefaultField) {
      moreLikeFields = Collections.singletonList(parseContext.defaultField());
    }
    // possibly remove unsupported fields
    removeUnsupportedFields(moreLikeFields, analyzer, failOnUnsupportedField);
    if (moreLikeFields.isEmpty()) {
      return null;
    }
    mltQuery.setMoreLikeFields(moreLikeFields.toArray(Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY));

    // support for named query
    if (queryName != null) {
      parseContext.addNamedQuery(queryName, mltQuery);
    }

    // handle like texts
    if (!likeTexts.isEmpty()) {
      mltQuery.setLikeText(likeTexts);
    }
    if (!unlikeTexts.isEmpty()) {
      mltQuery.setIgnoreText(unlikeTexts);
    }

    // handle items
    if (!likeItems.isEmpty()) {
      // set default index, type and fields if not specified
      MultiTermVectorsRequest items = likeItems;
      for (TermVectorsRequest item : unlikeItems) {
        items.add(item);
      }

      for (TermVectorsRequest item : items) {
        if (item.index() == null) {
          item.index(parseContext.index().name());
        }
        if (item.type() == null) {
          if (parseContext.queryTypes().size() > 1) {
            throw new QueryParsingException(
                parseContext,
                "ambiguous type for item with id: " + item.id() + " and index: " + item.index());
          } else {
            item.type(parseContext.queryTypes().iterator().next());
          }
        }
        // default fields if not present but don't override for artificial docs
        if (item.selectedFields() == null && item.doc() == null) {
          if (useDefaultField) {
            item.selectedFields("*");
          } else {
            item.selectedFields(moreLikeFields.toArray(new String[moreLikeFields.size()]));
          }
        }
      }
      // fetching the items with multi-termvectors API
      items.copyContextAndHeadersFrom(SearchContext.current());
      MultiTermVectorsResponse responses = fetchService.fetchResponse(items);

      // getting the Fields for liked items
      mltQuery.setLikeText(MoreLikeThisFetchService.getFields(responses, likeItems));

      // getting the Fields for ignored items
      if (!unlikeItems.isEmpty()) {
        org.apache.lucene.index.Fields[] ignoreFields =
            MoreLikeThisFetchService.getFields(responses, unlikeItems);
        if (ignoreFields.length > 0) {
          mltQuery.setUnlikeText(ignoreFields);
        }
      }

      BooleanQuery.Builder boolQuery = new BooleanQuery.Builder();
      boolQuery.add(mltQuery, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);

      // exclude the items from the search
      if (!include) {
        handleExclude(boolQuery, likeItems);
      }
      return boolQuery.build();
    }

    return mltQuery;
  }