Executing a standard search

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

Getting ready

You will 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 placed on Packt's website, and on GitHub (https://github.com/aparo/elasticsearch-cookbook-second-edition). The referred class is QueryExample.

How to do it...

To execute a standard query, we will perform the following steps:

1. After having created a query, it is enough to use the prepareQuery call in order to execute it and pass it your query object. Here 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.*...