Elasticsearch Rest Client with Spring Data Elasticsearch

Question

I am in a situation where I am using Spring boot and AWS elasticsearch service. AWS Elasticsearch service which only provides REST interface.

Elasticsearch Rest Client is here.

Simply, Is it possible to use REST client with Spring Data Elasticsearch?

In other words, Does Spring Data Elasticsearch works with Elasticsearch Rest client?

Spring Data Elasticsearch is very easy to use and template provides very most functionality that I need. With Elasicsearch Rest client I have to implement all the functionality myself.

user_6470613 · Answer

I think jest client for elasticsearch will serve your purpose. https://github.com/searchbox-io/Jest/tree/master/jest. Jest is a Java HTTP Rest client for ElasticSearch. It has a very good documentation too and have support for all queries in elasticsearch.

user_7116844 · Answer

Can't comment on Przemek Nowak's answer above. If you don't want to wait for Spring Data ES 2.2.x to use the High Level Rest Client, then Spring Data Jest saves the day.

As per their documentation, you first disable the default Spring Data ES autoconfiguration:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {
    ElasticsearchAutoConfiguration.class, 
    ElasticsearchDataAutoConfiguration.class
})

And that's it - the repositories will now use Jest's implementation. And if you'd like to use the ElasticsearchTemplate, make sure you inject ElasticsearchOperations interface instead:

private final ElasticsearchOperations esTemplate;

Elasticsearch Rest Client with Spring Data Elasticsearch

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