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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

Creating a simple plugin


In the previous recipe we saw the site plugin, but ElasticSearch allows creating a most powerful type of plugin, the native JAR ones.

Native plugins allow extending several aspects of the ElasticSearch server, but they require good Java knowledge. Because they are compiled in native JVM, they are generally very fast.

In this recipe we will see how to set up a system to develop native plugins.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch node, a Maven built tool, and an optional Java IDE. The code of this recipe is available in the chapter12/simple_plugin directory.

How to do it...

Generally ElasticSearch plugins are developed in Java using the Maven built tool and deployed as a ZIP file.

For creating a simple JAR plugin, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. To correctly build and serve a plugin, the following files must be defined:

    • pom.xml: This is used to define the build configuration for Maven.

    • es-plugin.properties: This defines the namespace of the plugin class...