Example Elasticsearch Proxy for Node.js

es_proxy.js

var express = require('express');
var request = require('request');
var app = express();

var port = Number(process.env.PORT || 3000);
var apiServerHost = (process.env.ELASTIC_URL || 'http://127.0.0.1:9200')

// Listen for requests on all endpoints
app.use('/', function(req, res, body) {
	// short-circuit favicon requests for easier debugging
	if (req.url != '/favicon.ico') {
		console.log('req.method: ' + req.method);
		console.log('req.url: ' + req.url);

		// Request method handling: exit if not GET or POST
		if ( ! (req.method == 'GET' || req.method == 'POST') ) {
			errMethod = { error: req.method + " request method is not supported. Use GET or POST." };
			console.log("ERROR: " + req.method + " request method is not supported.");
			res.write(JSON.stringify(errMethod));
			res.end();
			return;
		}

		// pass the request to elasticsearch
	  var url = apiServerHost + req.url;
		req.pipe(request({
		    uri  : url,
		    auth : {
		        user : 'username',
		        pass : 'password'
		    },
				headers: {
					'accept-encoding': 'none'
				},
		    rejectUnauthorized : false,
		}, function(err, res, body) {
			// you could do something here before returning the response
		})).pipe(res); // return the elasticsearch results to the user
	}
});

// Server Listen
app.listen(port, function () {
	console.log('App server is running on http://localhost:' + port);
	console.log('Heroku config variable - ELASTIC_URL: ' + process.env.ELASTIC_URL);
	console.log('apiServerHost: ' + apiServerHost);
});

Thanks, this example save me a lot of work!

Thanks, but what if I need to modify request body before sending it to elastic? Especially POST requests. In this case we need transform stream and pipe it one more time, but it doesn;t work for me.

var inherits = require('util').inherits;
var TransformStream = require('stream').Transform;

function UpperStream() {
    TransformStream.call(this);
}

inherits(UpperStream, TransformStream);
UpperStream.prototype._transform = function (chunk, encoding, cb) {
    cb(null, chunk);
};

let url = apiServerHost + req.url;
req.pipe(new UpperStream()).pipe(
   request({
         uri: url,
         headers: {
               'accept-encoding': 'none'
                    },
               rejectUnauthorized: false,
        })
).pipe(res); // return the elasticsearch results to the user