Learning Elasticsearch

Creating a document

A new document can be added using the Document API's. For the e-commerce example, to add a new product, we execute the following command. The body of the request is the product document we want to index.

PUT http://localhost:9200/chapter1/product/1{  "title": "Learning Elasticsearch",  "author": "Abhishek Andhavarapu",  "category": "books"}

Let's inspect the request:

INDEX	chapter1
TYPE	product
IDENTIFIER	1
DOCUMENT	JSON
HTTP METHOD	PUT

The document's properties, such as title, author, the category, are also known as fields, which are similar to SQL columns. 

Elasticsearch will automatically create the index chapter1 and type product if they don't exist already. It will create the index with the default ...