Tips and Tricks

This page lists some general tips and tricks provided by the community

Consider a scenario where you are using client side libraries like elasticjs but want security to be provided by server side business logic. Consider this example using WebAPI

WARN: make sure dynamic scripting is turned off if you decide to open the full query DSL to the client!

[RoutePrefix("api/Search")]
public class SearchController : ApiController
{
    [ActionName("_search")]
    public IHttpActionResult Post([FromBody]SearchDescriptor<dynamic> query)
    {;
        var client = new ElasticClient();

        //Your server side security goes here

        var result = client.Search(q => query);
        return Ok(result);
    }
}

The fragments [RoutePrefix("api/Search")] and [ActionName("_search")] will let you change your elastic search Url from http://localhost:9200/_search to http://yourwebsite/api/Search/_search and let things work as normal. The fragment [FromBody]SearchDescriptor<dynamic> query will convert the JSON query into NEST SearchDescriptor. The fragment client.Search(q => query) will execute the query.