ES index API - part 1

Indices APIs

Index management:

Create Index
Delete Index
Get Index
Indices Exists
Open / Close Index API
Shrink Index
Split Index
Rollover Index

### Mapping management:

Put Mapping
Get Mapping
Get Field Mapping
Types Exists

Alias management:

Index Aliases

Index settings:

Update Indices Settings
Get Settings
Analyze
Index Templates

Monitoring:

Indices Stats
Indices Segments
Indices Recovery
Indices Shard Stores

Status management:

Clear Cache
Refresh
Flush
Force Merge

Create Index

index creation without any mappings

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/twitter?pretty"

NOTE:

Index name limitations

There are several limitations to what you can name your index. The complete list of limitations are:

Lowercase only
Cannot include \, /, *, ?, ", <, >, |, ` ` (space character), ,, #
Indices prior to 7.0 could contain a colon (:), but that’s been deprecated and won’t be supported in 7.0+
Cannot start with -, _, +
Cannot be . or ..
Cannot be longer than 255 bytes (note it is bytes, so multi-byte characters will count towards the 255 limit faster)

Index Settings

To update index use this, in this payload we are setting number of shards and no of replicas

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/twitter?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 3,
        "number_of_replicas" : 2
    }
}
'

Mappings

setting mappings to an index while creation

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/test?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 1
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "_doc" : {
            "properties" : {
                "field1" : { "type" : "text" }
            }
        }
    }
}
'

setting Aliases on existing index


curl -XPUT localhost:9200/index1/_alias/index2

multiple Aliases and filtering

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/test?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
    "aliases" : {
        "alias_1" : {},
        "alias_2" : {
            "filter" : {
                "term" : {"user" : "kimchy" }
            },
            "routing" : "kimchy"
        }
    }
}
'