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Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079815
Pages 750 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Managing Mappings Chapter 3: Basic Operations Chapter 4: Exploring Search Capabilities Chapter 5: Text and Numeric Queries Chapter 6: Relationships and Geo Queries Chapter 7: Aggregations Chapter 8: Scripting in Elasticsearch Chapter 9: Managing Clusters Chapter 10: Backups and Restoring Data Chapter 11: User Interfaces Chapter 12: Using the Ingest Module Chapter 13: Java Integration Chapter 14: Scala Integration Chapter 15: Python Integration Chapter 16: Plugin Development Chapter 17: Big Data Integration Chapter 18: X-Pack Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an ingest plugin

Elasticsearch 5.x introduced the ingest node that allows the modification, via a pipeline, to the records before ingesting in Elasticsearch. We have already seen in Chapter 12, Using the Ingest Module, that a pipeline is composed of one or more processor actions. In this recipe, we will see how to create a custom processor that stores in a field the initial character of another one.

Getting ready

You need an up and running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

Gradle or an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports Java programming with Gradle (version 7.3.x used in the examples), such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or IntelliJ IDEA, is required. Java JDK 17 or above needs to be installed.

The code for this recipe is available in the ch16/ingest_plugin directory.

How to do it...

To create an ingest processor plugin, we need to create the...

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