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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing indices with the native client


In the previous recipe we have seen how to initialize a client to send calls to an ElasticSearch cluster. In this recipe, we will see how to manage indices via client calls.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working copy of Maven.

The code of this recipe is in chapter_10/nativeclient in the code bundle, which can be downloaded from Packt's website, and the referred class is IndicesOperations.

How to do it...

ElasticSearch client maps all indices operations under the admin.indices object of the client. Here, there are all the indices operation (create, delete, exists, open, close, optimize, and so on). In the following example, we will only see the most used calls on indices.

The following code retrieves a client and executes the main operation on indices:

import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.IndicesExistsResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.client.Client;

public class IndicesOperations {
  private final Client...