Getting a document

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

The GET REST call allows getting a document in real time without the need for a refresh operation.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the indexed document from the Indexing a document recipe.

How to do it...

The GET method allows returning a document given its index, type, and ID.

The REST API URL is as follows:

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

For getting a document, we need to perform the following steps:

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

   curl –XGET http://localhost:9200/myindex/order/2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw?pretty=true
   

2. The result returned by ElasticSearch should be the indexed document and it should be as follows:

   {
   "_index":"myindex","_type":"order","_id":"2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw","_version":1,"exists":true, "_source" : {
       "id" : "1234",
       "date" : "2013...