ElasticSearch Cookbook - Second Edition

Using the Thrift protocol

Thrift is an interface definition language, initially developed by Facebook, used to define and create services. This protocol is now maintained by Apache Software Foundation.

Its usage is similar to HTTP, but it bypasses the limit of HTTP protocol (latency, handshake and so on) and it's faster.

Getting ready

You need a working instance of ElasticSearch cluster with the thrift plugin installed (https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-thrift/); the standard port for the Thrift protocol is 9500.

How to do it...

To use the Thrift protocol in a Java environment, perform the following steps:

1. We must be sure that Maven loads the thrift library adding to the pom.xml file; the code lines are:

   <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId> ...