Monday, 28 September 2015

Talk to Elastic search

It is time to communicate with elastic search. This post is foundation for all subsequent posts. We can communicate with Elastic search using Java APIs (or) Elastic search Restful API. I will explain about Java API later. For learning purpose, I am going to use Sense.

Open Sense console by hitting following URL.

Update Server as “localhost:9200”.

In left side of window type “GET _count” and hit Run button.

You will get following output in right frame of sense window.

{
   "count": 789,
   "_shards": {
      "total": 2,
      "successful": 2,
      "failed": 0
   }
}

Above request can be mapped to localhost:9200/_count.

From now on wards, I am going to use following notation to query elastic search.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_count

If request has any body in it, it is added to bottom of the url like below.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_count ?pretty'
{
    "query": {
        "match_all": {}
    }
}
In the rest of the tutorial, I am going to use following format, which is like Sense format.

GET _count ?pretty'
{
    "query": {
        "match_all": {}
    }

}


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