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Elasticsearch Server: Second Edition

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Elasticsearch Server: Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Elasticsearch Server Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Scripting capabilities of Elasticsearch


Elasticsearch has a few functionalities where scripts can be used. You've already seen examples such as updating documents, filtering, and searching. Regardless of the fact that this seems to be advanced, we will take a look at the possibilities offered by Elasticsearch, because scripts are priceless for some use cases.

If we look at any request made to Elasticsearch that uses scripts, we will notice some similar properties, which are as follows:

  • Script: This property contains the actual script code.

  • Lang: This property defines the field that provides information about the script language. If it is omitted, Elasticsearch assumes mvel.

  • Params: This object contains parameters and their values. Every defined parameter can be used inside the script by specifying that parameter name. Using parameters, we can write cleaner code. Scripts using parameters are executed faster than code with embedded constants because of caching.

Objects available during script execution...