Getting ready

To execute the code in this recipe, you need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute these commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or other similar platforms. I suggest using the Kibana console to provide code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.

To better understand the examples and code in this recipe, a basic knowledge of JSON is required.