gistfile1.js

// TEST DATA

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/user/kimchy -d '{
    "name" : "Shay Banon"
}'

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1 -d '{
    "user": "kimchy",
    "post_date": "2009-11-15T13:12:00",
    "message": "Trying out elasticsearch, so far so good?"
}'

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2 -d '{
    "user": "kimchy",
    "post_date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message": "You know, for Search"
}'

// Successful GET requests

// no fields specified
$ curl "http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?pretty=true"
{
  "_index" : "twitter",
  "_type" : "tweet",
  "_id" : "2",
  "_version" : 1,
  "exists" : true, "_source" : {
    "user": "kimchy",
    "post_date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message": "You know, for Search"
}

// specific fields
$ curl "http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?pretty=true&fields=user,message"
{
  "_index" : "twitter",
  "_type" : "tweet",
  "_id" : "2",
  "_version" : 1,
  "exists" : true,
  "fields" : {
    "message" : "You know, for Search",
    "user" : "kimchy"
  }
}

// Unsuccessful GET requets - wildcard "*" fields requested

$ curl "http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?pretty=true&fields=*"
{
  "_index" : "twitter",
  "_type" : "tweet",
  "_id" : "2",
  "_version" : 1,
  "exists" : true
}


// Search requests work with wildcard fields

curl "http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search?pretty=true&q=user:kimchy&fields=*"
{
  "took" : 1,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "2",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
    "user": "kimchy",
    "post_date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message": "You know, for Search"
}
    }, {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_score" : 0.30685282, "_source" : {
    "user": "kimchy",
    "post_date": "2009-11-15T13:12:00",
    "message": "Trying out elasticsearch, so far so good?"
}
    } ]
  }
}