Laravel console command for reindexing Elasticsearch.

ElasticRecreateIndex.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class ElasticRecreateIndex extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'elastic:reindex';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Recreate ElasticSearch index, with mapping, and reindex';

    /**
     * Create a new command instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $host = config('scout.elasticsearch.hosts');
        $index = config('scout.elasticsearch.index');

        $client = ClientBuilder::create()->setHosts($host)->build();

        if ($client->indices()->exists(['index' => $index])) {
            $this->warn("Index {$index} exists, deleting...");
            $client->indices()->delete(['index' => $index]);
        }

        $this->info("Creating index: {$index}");
        $client->indices()->create([
            'index' => $index,
            'body' => [
                "settings" => [
                    "number_of_shards" => 1,
                    "number_of_replicas" => 0,
                    "analysis" => [
                        "analyzer" => [
                            "synonym_filter" => [
                                "tokenizer" => "standard",
                                "filter" => ["lowercase", "synonym_filter"],
                            ]
                        ],
                        "filter" => [
                            "synonym_filter" => [
                                "type" => "synonym",
                                "synonyms_path" => "analysis/synonyms.txt",
                            ]
                        ]
                    ]
                ]
            ]
        ]);

        if ($this->confirm('Import all searchable models?')) {
            $this->importPublic($client, $index);
        }
    }


    /**
     * @param $client
     * @param $index
     */
    private function importPublic($client, $index)
    {
        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Articles
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */
        $client->indices()->putMapping([
            'index' => $index,
            'type'  => 'articles',
            'body'  => [
                "_all" => [
                    "enabled"  => true,
                    "analyzer" => "synonym_filter"
                ]
            ]
        ]);
        $this->call('scout:import', ['model' => 'Your\Model']);
    }

}