Using ElasticSearch Rest Client with Spring Data ElasticSearch

Question

Currently i am trying to use Spring boot and AWS elasticsearch service in my project. AWS Elasticsearch service which only provides REST interface.

Spring Data Elasticsearch is very easy to use and template provides very most functionality that I need. With Elasicsearch Rest client I have to implement all the functionality myself.

Is it possible to use REST client with Spring Data Elasticsearch?

Answer 1

Currently Spring Data Elasticsearch doesn't support the communication by the REST API. They are using the transport client.

There is separate fork of Spring Data Elasticsearch where the JEST library is used and communication is made by REST:

https://github.com/VanRoy/spring-data-jest

You will find the interesting discussion under the following ticked of Spring Data Elasticsearch:

https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAES-220

I hope this was helpful.