indices client and xcontent/json support

Hello and I have a question: I am trying out this new fluent client and have a bunch of projects that I wanted to migrate from the RHLC to the new API client. Now I am kinda stuck on an inconvenient spot, creating an index with settings and mapping. the builder and functional pattern are nice, though in our projects we put json-files for mappings and settings which are read and converted into an object/xContentBuilder so we do not have to implement complex settings/mappings into java code (and reuse without copy paste).

kinda like that

CreateIndexRequest createIndexRequest = new CreateIndexRequest(indexName)
				.settings(this.elasticsearchIndexService.createSettings(ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_SETTINGS_FILE))
				.mapping(this.elasticsearchIndexService.createMapping(ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_MAPPING_FILE,
					ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_MAPPING_FOLDER, shop));
AcknowledgedResponse indexCreateResponse = this.restHighLevelClient.indices().create(createIndexRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

depending on the shop parameter different mappings are loaded.

Is there a similar and fluent way doing that in the new client or are there any plans supporting json/xcontent?

[swallez]

We’ve added support for loading JSON directly from object builders with a new withJson(someJson) method in PR #200.

This is backwards compatible and will be in the next 7.17 and 8.1 patch releases.

The documentation for this new feature is already up for the main branch.

[adagios]

(don’t think this is the right place for this, but trying to help)

@sulaukad to build a query you could use:

        WrapperQuery query = new WrapperQuery.Builder()
                .query("{some json query}")
                .build();

or in a builder:

        SearchRequest request = new SearchRequest.Builder()
                .query(_0 -> _0.wrapper(_1 -> _1
                        .query("{some json query}")))
                .build();