How to create index and type in elastic search?

Question

I have installed elasticsearch version 2.3.2. I have to add index and type to that elasticsearch. Before I used sense plugin to achieve this. But the addon was removed from webstore. Please give suggestion.

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 08:53

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Sense plugin is now a Kibana app. Please refer official reference for installation.

The answer of your question is, you can create index and type in Elasticsearch by running below curl command

curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/IndexName/TypeName"

answered Oct 16 '17 at 08:53

Roopendra

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You have to run this command from command line. In which OS you are trying this ? – Roopendra Oct 16 '17 at 09:09
if i run means getting 'curl' is not a recognized command error . – Gopal Oct 16 '17 at 09:11
You have to install curl first . – Roopendra Oct 16 '17 at 09:13

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 02 '19 at 14:54

You can use a Rest client like postman to do this. You can get the postman as a chrome extension.

The other way is to do an SSH into one of the nodes in your cluster and run the POST command using CURL.

`curl -X POST 'localhost:9200/bookindex/books' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
 {
    "bookId" : "A00-3",
    "author" : "Sankaran",
    "publisher" : "Mcgrahill",
    "name" : "how to get a job"
 }'

I will automatically create an index named 'bookindex' with type 'books' and index the data. If index and type already exist it will add the entry to the index.

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 09:46

All operations in Elasticsearch can be done via REST API calls.

To create an index use the index API

curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/twitter?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"settings" : {"index" : {"number_of_shards" : 3, "number_of_replicas" : 0 }}}'

To create the mapping the you can use the _mapping endpoint-

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweets/_mapping -d @"create_p4_schema_payload.json"

Here,mapping is provided via a json file name create_p4_schema_payload.json which contains the following-

{
  "properties": {
    "user_name": {
      "type": "text"
    }
  }
}

All these can be run via any terminal which supports curl. For windows, you may install cygwin to run linux command from command prompt.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 21 '21 at 20:18

Like it was said above, you can access it through REST api calls. The command you need to run is:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/IndexName?include_type_name=TypeName'

CURL is a raw text that can be imported into Postman, for example, or you can install it's CLI and simply run it. Simply put:

It's a PUT api call to the ElasticSearch/IndexName, adding the Query Parameter include_type_name.

The reference guide is at: Elastic Search - Create index API

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '19 at 05:32

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Sense plugin is removed from chrome webstore. You could use Kibana which has sense like dev-tool to perform ElasticSearch queries.

Follow this link to install kibana.

answered Oct 01 '19 at 05:32

Vishal Patel

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