Book Image

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 river plugin


In Chapter 8, Rivers, we have seen how powerful the river plugin is. It allows populating an ElasticSearch cluster from different sources (DBMS, NoSQL system, streams, and so on).

Creating a custom river is generally required if you need to add a new NoSQL data source that is not supported by the already existing plugins, add a new stream type, or add a custom business logic for importing data in ElasticSearch such as fields modification, data aggregation, and, in general, data brewery.

In this recipe we will see a simple river that generates documents with a field containing an incremental value.

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/river_plugin directory.

How to do it...

To create a river plugin we need atleast the following classes:

  • The plugin that registers a river module

  • A river module that registers our river

  • The river that executes our business logic

We...