ElasticSearch Cookbook - Second Edition

Querying/filtering for a single term

Searching or filtering for a particular term is frequently done. A term query and filter work with exact values and are generally very fast.

The term query/filter can be compared to the equals "=" query in the SQL world (for the fields that are not tokenized).

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and an index populated with the script chapter_05/populate_query.sh, available in the code bundle for this book.

How to do it...

In order to execute a term query/filter, perform the following steps:

1. Execute a term query from the command line:

   curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-type/_search?pretty=true' -d '{
     "query": {
       "term": {
         "uuid": "33333"
       }
     }
   }'
   

2. The following result should be ...