We now have all the required knowledge in Elasticsearch to implement our last undefined step definition, which reads from the database to see if our user document has been indexed correctly. We will be using the JavaScript client, which is merely a wrapper around the REST API, with a one-to-one mapping to its endpoints. So first, let's install it:
$ yarn add elasticsearchNext, import the package into our spec/cucumber/steps/index.js file and create an instance of elasticsearch.Client:
const client = new elasticsearch.Client({
host: `${process.env.ELASTICSEARCH_PROTOCOL}://${process.env.ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTNAME}:${process.env.ELASTICSEARCH_PORT}`,
});By default, Elasticsearch runs on port 9200. However, to avoid hard-coded values, we have explicitly passed in an options object, specifying the host option, which takes its value from the environment variables. To make this work, add these environment variables to our .env and .env.example files:
ELASTICSEARCH_PROTOCOL...