Using a terms query
The previous type of search works very well for searching a single term. If you want to search for multiple terms, you can process it in two ways: either using a Boolean query or using a multi-term query.
Getting ready
You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started.
To execute these commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or similar. I suggest you use the Kibana console, as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.
To correctly execute the following commands, you will need an index populated with the ch04/populate_kibana.txt command, which is available in the online code.
How to do it...
To execute a terms query, we will perform the following steps:
- We execute a
termsquery from the command line, as follows:POST /mybooks...
