Using a terms query

The previous type of search works very well for single term search. If you want search for multiple terms, you can process it in two ways: using a boolean query or using a multi-term query.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

To execute curl via the command line, you need to install curl for your operative system.

To correctly execute the following commands, you need an index populated with the chapter_05/populate_query.sh script available in the online code.

How to do it...

For executing a terms query, we will perform the following steps:

1. We execute a terms query, from the command line:

           curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-
           type/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
               "query": {
                   "terms": {
                       "uuid": ["33333", "32222"]
                   }
            ...