Api

This section describes the REST APIs elasticsearch provides (mainly) using JSON. The API is exposed using HTTP, thrift, memcached.

Nodes

Most cluster level APIs allow to specify which nodes to execute on (for example, getting the node stats for a node). Nodes can be identified in the APIs either using their internal node id, the node name, address, custom attributes, or just the _local node receiving the request. For example, here are some sample executions of nodes info:

# Local
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/_local
# Address
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/10.0.0.3,10.0.0.4
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/10.0.0.*
# Names
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/node_name_goes_here
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/node_name_goes_*
# Attributes (set something like node.rack: 2 in the config)
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/rack:2
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/ra*:2
curl localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/ra*:2*

Options

Pretty Results

When appending ?pretty=true to any request made, the JSON returned will be pretty formatted (use it for debugging only!).

Parameters

Rest parameters (when using HTTP, map to HTTP URL parameters) follow the convention of using underscore casing.

Boolean Values

All REST APIs parameters (both request parameters and JSON body) support providing boolean “false” as the values: false, 0 and off. All other values are considered “true”. Note, this is not related to fields within a document indexed treated as boolean fields.

Number Values

All REST APIs support providing numbered parameters as string on top of supporting the native JSON number types.

Result Casing

All REST APIs accept the case parameter. When set to camelCase, all field names in the result will be returned in camel casing, otherwise, underscore casing will be used. Note, this does not apply to the source document indexed.

JSONP

All REST APIs accept a callback parameter resulting in a JSONP result.