Simple & handy client for elasticsearch. It's just a wrapper around http.request with shortcuts for elasticsearch.

It implements all available functionality & even upcoming.

Be careful while using settings for default type & index: they are client's instance variables. So if you are going to have one client in an application you'd better set them explicitly in each call. JS is so asynchronous...

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usage

Elastics = require 'elastics'
es = new Elastics
  host:  hostname # default 'localhost'
  port:  port     # default 9200
  index: index    # default null
  type:  type     # default null

This params are stored in es.defaults. You can change them with:

• setIndex(index, [type = null])
• setType(type)

For the first time I've made all the methods adaptive to arguments. But then there have appeared to much significant arguments so I gave it up.

So all the methods take two args: object with parameters & callback. For now you can omit callback but not params.

params fields:

• method - http request method
• index
• type
• path - last part for url
• id - same as path but with higher priority
• query - query string for url. you can set routing params here
• data - request body

You can omit fields stored in defaults

lowest level

request(params, [callback])

request-type level

get(), put(), post(), delete() - just set the method

highest level

• putMapping() - put with path = '_mapping'
• search() - post with path = '_search'
• index() - if id field is set then put else post

few examples

es.setType()
# index:null, type: null

es.get {}
# GET http://host::port/

es.post index: 'index'
# POST http://host::port/index

es.setIndex 'other_index', 'type'
mapping = type:
  fields:
    field_one: type: 'string'
es.putMapping data: mapping
# PUT http://host::port/other_index/type/_mapping
# body is json of mapping

es.get index: 'one', type: 'two', id: 'three'
# GET http://host::port/one/two/three

see tests

LICENSE

BSD