Elasticsearch Server - Third Edition

Searching with the URI request query

Before getting into the wonderful world of the Elasticsearch query language, we would like to introduce you to the simple but pretty flexible URI request search, which allows us to use a simple Elasticsearch query combined with the Lucene query language. Of course, we will extend our search knowledge using Elasticsearch in Chapter 3, Searching Your Data, but for now we will stick to the simplest approach.

Sample data

For the purpose of this section of the book, we will create a simple index with two document types. To do this, we will run the following six commands:

curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/books/es/1' -d '{"title":"Elasticsearch Server", "published": 2013}'
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/books/es/2' -d '{"title":"Elasticsearch ...