Elasticsearch Blueprints

Communicating with the Elasticsearch server

cURL will be our tool of choice that we will use to communicate with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch follows a REST-like protocol for its exposed web API. Some of its features are as follows:

• PUT: The HTTP method PUT is used to send configurations to Elasticsearch.
• POST: The HTTP method POST is used to create new documents or to perform a search operation. While successful indexing of documents is done using POST, Elasticsearch provides you with a unique ID that points to the index file.
• GET: The HTTP method GET is used to retrieve an already indexed document. Each document has a unique ID called a doc ID (short form for document's ID). When we index a document using POST, it provides a document ID, which ...