Executing a standard search

In the previous recipe, we saw how to build queries. In this recipe, we can execute this query to retrieve some documents.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working copy of Maven.

The code of this recipe is in chapter_10/nativeclient in the code bundle of this book available on Packt's website and the referred class is QueryExample.

How to do it...

For executing a standard query, we will perform the steps given as follows:

1. After having created a query, to execute it is enough using the prepareQuery call and pass to it your query object. Here, there is a complete example:

   import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchResponse;
   import org.elasticsearch.client.Client;
   import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilder;
   import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchHit;
   import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.FilterBuilders.*;
   import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.*;
   
   public class QueryExample {
     public static void main(String...