As the title says, I want to make the following query from rails with the elasticsearch-rails
gem.
curl -XGET "localhost:9200/my_index/_count?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query": {
"term": {
"my_field": 12
}
}
}
'
I have tried this:
MyModel.search("cats", search_type: 'count').results.total
and I get
Elasticsearch::Transport::Transport::Errors::BadRequest ([400] {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No search type for [count]"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No search type for [count]"},"status":400})
The curl
call works fine from the console.
Despite some people thinking that count
has been deprecated the Count API seems alive and well in ES 7.7 - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-count.html