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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

Getting a mapping


After having set our mappings for processing types, we sometimes need to control or analyze the mapping to prevent issues. The action to get the mapping for a type helps us to understand the structure or its evolution due to some merge and explicit type guessing.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the mapping created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

The HTTP method to get a mapping is GET.

The URL formats for getting mapping are as follows:

http://<server>/_mapping
http://<server>/<index_name>/_mapping
http://<server>/<index_name>/<type_name>/_mapping

For getting a mapping from in an index, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. If we consider the type order of the previous chapter, the call will be as follows:

    curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/order/_mapping?pretty=true'
    
  2. The result returned by ElasticSearch should be as follows:

    {
        "order": {
            "properties": {
                "customer_id": {
      ...