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ElasticSearch Cookbook

ElasticSearch Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Alberto Paro
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ElasticSearch Cookbook

ElasticSearch Cookbook

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By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

If you are a developer who implements ElasticSearch in your web applications and want to sharpen your understanding of the core elements and applications, this is the book for you. It is assumed that you’ve got working knowledge of JSON and, if you want to extend ElasticSearch, of Java and related technologies.
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Index

Checking if an index or type exists


A common pitfall error is to query for indices and types that don't exist. To prevent this issue, ElasticSearch gives the user the ability to check the index and type existence.

This check is often used during an application startup to create indices and types that are required for it to work correctly.

Getting ready

You will need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the mapping available in the index, as described in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

The HTTP method to check the existence is HEAD.

The URL format for checking an index is:

http://<server>/<index_name>/

The URL format for checking a type is:

http://<server>/<index_name>/<type>/

To check if an index exists, we will perform the following steps:

  1. If we consider the index created in the Creating an index recipe in this chapter, the call will be:

    curl –i -XHEAD 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/'
    

    The –i curl options allows dumping the server headers.

  2. If the index exists, an HTTP...

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