Getting a document

After having indexed a document, during your application life it must probably be retrieved.

The GET REST call allows us to get a document in real time without the need of a refresh.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as used in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

To execute curl via the command line, you need to install curl for your operative system.

To correctly execute the following commands, use the indexed document in the Indexing a document recipe.

How to do it...

The GET method allows us to return a document given its index, type, and ID.

The REST API URL is:

http://<server>/<index_name>/<type_name>/<id>

To get a document, we will perform the following steps:

1. If we consider the document, which we had indexed in the previous recipe, the call will be:

           curl -XGET 
           'http://localhost:9200/myindex/order/2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw?
           pretty=true...