[[elasticsearch.clients]]
= Elasticsearch Clients

This chapter illustrates configuration and usage of supported Elasticsearch client implementations.

Spring Data Elasticsearch operates upon an Elasticsearch client that is connected to a single Elasticsearch node or a cluster. Although the Elasticsearch Client can be used to work with the cluster, applications using Spring Data Elasticsearch normally use the higher level abstractions of <<elasticsearch.operations>> and <<elasticsearch.repositories>>.

[[elasticsearch.clients.transport]]
== Transport Client

WARNING: The well known `TransportClient` is deprecated as of Elasticsearch 7 and will be removed in Elasticsearch 8. (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api/current/transport-client.html[see the Elasticsearch documentation]). Spring Data Elasticsearch will support the `TransportClient` as long as it is available in the used
Elasticsearch <<elasticsearch.versions,version>> but has deprecated the classes using it since version 4.0.

We strongly recommend to use the <<elasticsearch.clients.rest>> instead of the `TransportClient`.

.Transport Client
====
[source,java]
----
@Configuration
public class TransportClientConfig extends ElasticsearchConfigurationSupport {

    @Bean
    public Client elasticsearchClient() throws UnknownHostException {
        Settings settings = Settings.builder().put("cluster.name", "elasticsearch").build();        <1>
        TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings);
        client.addTransportAddress(new TransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("127.0.0.1"), 9300)); <2>
        return client;
    }

    @Bean(name = { "elasticsearchOperations", "elasticsearchTemplate" })
    public ElasticsearchTemplate elasticsearchTemplate() throws UnknownHostException {
        return new ElasticsearchTemplate(elasticsearchClient());
    }
}

// ...

IndexRequest request = new IndexRequest("spring-data", "elasticsearch", randomID())
 .source(someObject)
 .setRefreshPolicy(IMMEDIATE);

IndexResponse response = client.index(request);
----
<1> The `TransportClient` must be configured with the cluster name.
<2> The host and port to connect the client to.
====

[[elasticsearch.clients.rest]]
== High Level REST Client

The Java High Level REST Client is the default client of Elasticsearch, it provides a straight forward replacement for the `TransportClient` as it accepts and returns
the very same request/response objects and therefore depends on the Elasticsearch core project.
Asynchronous calls are operated upon a client managed thread pool and require a callback to be notified when the request is done.

.High Level REST Client
====
[source,java]
----
@Configuration
public class RestClientConfig extends AbstractElasticsearchConfiguration {

    @Override
    @Bean
    public RestHighLevelClient elasticsearchClient() {

        final ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration = ClientConfiguration.builder()  <1>
            .connectedTo("localhost:9200")
            .build();

        return RestClients.create(clientConfiguration).rest();                         <2>
    }
}

// ...

  @Autowired
  RestHighLevelClient highLevelClient;

  RestClient lowLevelClient = highLevelClient.lowLevelClient();                        <3>

// ...

IndexRequest request = new IndexRequest("spring-data", "elasticsearch", randomID())
  .source(singletonMap("feature", "high-level-rest-client"))
  .setRefreshPolicy(IMMEDIATE);

IndexResponse response = highLevelClient.index(request);
----
<1> Use the builder to provide cluster addresses, set default `HttpHeaders` or enable SSL.
<2> Create the RestHighLevelClient.
<3> It is also possible to obtain the `lowLevelRest()` client.
====

[[elasticsearch.clients.reactive]]
== Reactive Client

The `ReactiveElasticsearchClient` is a non official driver based on `WebClient`.
It uses the request/response objects provided by the Elasticsearch core project.
Calls are directly operated on the reactive stack, **not** wrapping async (thread pool bound) responses into reactive types.

.Reactive REST Client
====
[source,java]
----
static class Config {

  @Bean
  ReactiveElasticsearchClient client() {

    ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration = ClientConfiguration.builder()   <1>
      .connectedTo("localhost:9200", "localhost:9291")
      .withWebClientConfigurer(webClient -> {                                 <2>
        ExchangeStrategies exchangeStrategies = ExchangeStrategies.builder()
            .codecs(configurer -> configurer.defaultCodecs()
                .maxInMemorySize(-1))
            .build();
        return webClient.mutate().exchangeStrategies(exchangeStrategies).build();
       })
      .build();

    return ReactiveRestClients.create(clientConfiguration);
  }
}

// ...

Mono<IndexResponse> response = client.index(request ->

  request.index("spring-data")
    .type("elasticsearch")
    .id(randomID())
    .source(singletonMap("feature", "reactive-client"))
    .setRefreshPolicy(IMMEDIATE);
);
----
<1> Use the builder to provide cluster addresses, set default `HttpHeaders` or enable SSL.
<2> when configuring a reactive client, the `withWebClientConfigurer` hook can be used to customize the WebClient.
====

NOTE: The ReactiveClient response, especially for search operations, is bound to the `from` (offset) & `size` (limit) options of the request.

[[elasticsearch.clients.configuration]]
== Client Configuration

Client behaviour can be changed via the `ClientConfiguration` that allows to set options for SSL, connect and socket timeouts, headers and other parameters.

.Client Configuration
====
[source,java]
----
HttpHeaders httpHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
httpHeaders.add("some-header", "on every request")                      <1>

ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration = ClientConfiguration.builder()
  .connectedTo("localhost:9200", "localhost:9291")                      <2>
  .useSsl()                                                             <3>
  .withProxy("localhost:8888")                                          <4>
  .withPathPrefix("ela")                                                <5>
  .withConnectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(5))                            <6>
  .withSocketTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(3))                             <7>
  .withDefaultHeaders(defaultHeaders)                                   <8>
  .withBasicAuth(username, password)                                    <9>
  .withHeaders(() -> {                                                  <10>
    HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    headers.add("currentTime", LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME));
    return headers;
  })
  . // ... other options
  .build();

----
<1> Define default headers, if they need to be customized
<2> Use the builder to provide cluster addresses, set default `HttpHeaders` or enable SSL.
<3> Optionally enable SSL.
<4> Optionally set a proxy.
<5> Optionally set a path prefix, mostly used when different clusters a behind some reverse proxy.
<6> Set the connection timeout. Default is 10 sec.
<7> Set the socket timeout. Default is 5 sec.
<8> Optionally set headers.
<9> Add basic authentication.
<10> A `Supplier<Header>` function can be specified which is called every time before a request is sent to Elasticsearch - here, as an example, the current time is written in a header.
====

IMPORTANT: Adding a Header supplier as shown in above example allows to inject headers that may change over the time, like authentication JWT tokens. If this is used in the reactive setup, the supplier function *must not* block!

[[elasticsearch.clients.logging]]
== Client Logging

To see what is actually sent to and received from the server `Request` / `Response` logging on the transport level needs
to be turned on as outlined in the snippet below.

.Enable transport layer logging
[source,xml]
----
<logger name="org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.client.WIRE" level="trace"/>
----

NOTE: The above applies to both the `RestHighLevelClient` and `ReactiveElasticsearchClient` when obtained via `RestClients` respectively `ReactiveRestClients`, is not available for the `TransportClient`.
