A simple Elasticsearch example

example.sh

# Let's delete the index first
curl -X DELETE localhost:9200/people

# Create an index with specific settings
curl -X POST localhost:9200/people -d '{
  "settings" : {
    "index" : { "number_of_shards" : 1, "number_of_replicas" : 0 }
  }
}'

# Index documents...
curl -X PUT localhost:9200/people/person/1 -d '{
  "first_name" : "John",
  "last_name"  : "Zorn",
  "birthday"   : "1953-09-02"
}'

curl -X PUT localhost:9200/people/person/2 -d '{
  "first_name" : "John",
  "last_name"  : "Cage",
  "birthday"   : "1912-09-05"
}'

curl -X PUT localhost:9200/people/person/3 -d '{
  "first_name" : "Mary",
  "last_name"  : "Shelley",
  "birthday"   : "1797-08-30"
}'

# Don't forget to refresh the index before searching it immediately!
curl -X POST localhost:9200/people/_refresh

# Search for people named "John"
curl -X GET localhost:9200/people/_search?pretty -d '{
  "query" : {
    "match" : {
      "first_name" : "John"
    }
  }
}'

# Search for people born in the 20th century and sort them by birth date
curl -X GET localhost:9200/people/_search?pretty -d '{
  "query" : {
    "range" : {
      "birthday" : {
        "from" : "1900",
        "to" : "2000"
      }
    }
  },
  "sort" : [
    { "birthday" : "asc" }
  ]
}'

# Search for people born in September
curl -X GET localhost:9200/people/_search?pretty -d '{
  "query" : {
    "filtered" : {
      "query" : {
        "match_all" : {}
      },
      "filter" : {
        "script" : {
          "script" : "new Date(doc.birthday.getValue()).getMonth() == month",
          "params" : {
            "month" : 8
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'