Basic Examples of ElasticSearch Uses
By Anuket Jain On 26 April 2015 In Linux
Following examples of ElasticSearch will help to add, get and search data in ElasticSearch.
curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/mybucket
Output:
{"acknowledged":true}
Use following commands to add some data in ElasticSearch.
Command 1:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/user/tony' -d '{ "name" : "Dennis R" }'
Output:
{"_index":"mybucket","_type":"user","_id":"tony","_version":1,"created":true}
Command 2:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/post/1' -d '
{
"user": "Dennis",
"postDate": "01-15-2015",
"body": "This is Demo Post 1 in ElasticSearch" ,
"title": "Demo Post 1"
}'
Output:
{"_index":"mybucket","_type":"post","_id":"1","_version":1,"created":true}
Command 3:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/post/2' -d '
{
"user": "Jonny",
"postDate": "01-15-2015",
"body": "This is Demo Post 2 in ElasticSearch" ,
"title": "Demo Post 2"
}'
Output:
{"_index":"mybucket","_type":"post","_id":"2","_version":1,"created":true}
Use following command to GET data from ElasticSearch and read the output.
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/user/tony?pretty=true' curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/post/1?pretty=true' curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/post/2?pretty=true'
Use following command to search data from elastic search. Below command will search all data assiciated with user tony.
curl 'http://localhost:9200/mybucket/post/_search?q=user:Dennis&pretty=true'
Output:
{
"took" : 10,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "mybucket",
"_type" : "post",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source":
{
"user": "Dennis",
"postDate": "01-15-2015",
"body": "This is Demo Post 1 in ElasticSearch" ,
"title": "Demo Post 1"
}
} ]
}
}
Enjoy it!
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