Index management operationsedit

Index management operations allow you to manage the indices in your Elasticsearch cluster, such as creating, deleting and updating indices and their mappings/settings.

Create an indexedit

The index operations are all contained under a distinct namespace, separated from other methods that are on the root client object. As an example, let’s create a new index:

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->build();
$params = [
    'index' => 'my_index'
];

// Create the index
$response = $client->indices()->create($params);


You can specify any parameters that would normally be included in a new index creation API. All parameters that would normally go in the request body are located in the body parameter:

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->build();
$params = [
    'index' => 'my_index',
    'body' => [
        'settings' => [
            'number_of_shards' => 3,
            'number_of_replicas' => 2
        ],
        'mappings' => [
            '_source' => [
                'enabled' => true
            ],
            'properties' => [
                'first_name' => [
                    'type' => 'keyword'
                ],
                'age' => [
                    'type' => 'integer'
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
];


// Create the index with mappings and settings now
$response = $client->indices()->create($params);


Create an index (advanced example)edit

This is a more complicated example of creating an index, showing how to define analyzers, tokenizers, filters and index settings. Although essentially the same as the previous example, the more complicated example can be helpful for "real world" usage of the client since this particular syntax is easy to mess up.

$params = [
    'index' => 'reuters',
    'body' => [
        'settings' => [ 
            'number_of_shards' => 1,
            'number_of_replicas' => 0,
            'analysis' => [ 
                'filter' => [
                    'shingle' => [
                        'type' => 'shingle'
                    ]
                ],
                'char_filter' => [
                    'pre_negs' => [
                        'type' => 'pattern_replace',
                        'pattern' => '(\\w+)\\s+((?i:never|no|nothing|nowhere|noone|none|not|havent|hasnt|hadnt|cant|couldnt|shouldnt|wont|wouldnt|dont|doesnt|didnt|isnt|arent|aint))\\b',
                        'replacement' => '~$1 $2'
                    ],
                    'post_negs' => [
                        'type' => 'pattern_replace',
                        'pattern' => '\\b((?i:never|no|nothing|nowhere|noone|none|not|havent|hasnt|hadnt|cant|couldnt|shouldnt|wont|wouldnt|dont|doesnt|didnt|isnt|arent|aint))\\s+(\\w+)',
                        'replacement' => '$1 ~$2'
                    ]
                ],
                'analyzer' => [
                    'reuters' => [
                        'type' => 'custom',
                        'tokenizer' => 'standard',
                        'filter' => ['lowercase', 'stop', 'kstem']
                    ]
                ]
            ]
        ],
        'mappings' => [ 
            'properties' => [
                'title' => [
                    'type' => 'text',
                    'analyzer' => 'reuters',
                    'copy_to' => 'combined'
                ],
                'body' => [
                    'type' => 'text',
                    'analyzer' => 'reuters',
                    'copy_to' => 'combined'
                ],
                'combined' => [
                    'type' => 'text',
                    'analyzer' => 'reuters'
                ],
                'topics' => [
                    'type' => 'keyword'
                ],
                'places' => [
                    'type' => 'keyword'
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
];
$client->indices()->create($params);

The top level settings contains config about the index (# of shards, etc) as well as analyzers.

analysis is nested inside of settings, and contains tokenizers, filters, char filters and analyzers.

mappings is another element nested inside of settings, and contains the mappings for various types.

Delete an indexedit

Deleting an index is very simple:

$params = ['index' => 'my_index'];
$response = $client->indices()->delete($params);


PUT Settings APIedit

The PUT Settings API allows you to modify any index setting that is dynamic:

$params = [
    'index' => 'my_index',
    'body' => [
        'settings' => [
            'number_of_replicas' => 0,
            'refresh_interval' => -1
        ]
    ]
];

$response = $client->indices()->putSettings($params);


GET Settings APIedit

The GET Settings API shows you the currently configured settings for one or more indices:

// Get settings for one index
$params = ['index' => 'my_index'];
$response = $client->indices()->getSettings($params);

// Get settings for several indices
$params = [
    'index' => [ 'my_index', 'my_index2' ]
];
$response = $client->indices()->getSettings($params);


PUT Mappings APIedit

The PUT Mappings API allows you to modify or add to an existing index’s mapping.

// Set the index and type
$params = [
    'index' => 'my_index',
    'body' => [
        '_source' => [
            'enabled' => true
        ],
        'properties' => [
            'first_name' => [
                'type' => 'text',
                'analyzer' => 'standard'
            ],
            'age' => [
                'type' => 'integer'
            ]
        ]
    ]
];

// Update the index mapping
$client->indices()->putMapping($params);


GET Mappings APIedit

The GET Mappings API returns the mapping details about your indices. Depending on the mappings that you wish to retrieve, you can specify one of more indices:

// Get mappings for all indices
$response = $client->indices()->getMapping();

// Get mappings in 'my_index'
$params = ['index' => 'my_index'];
$response = $client->indices()->getMapping($params);

// Get mappings for two indices
$params = [
    'index' => [ 'my_index', 'my_index2' ]
];
$response = $client->indices()->getMapping($params);


Other APIs in the indices namespaceedit

There are a number of other APIs in the indices namespace that allow you to manage your Elasticsearch indices (add/remove templates, flush segments, close indices, etc).

If you use an IDE with autocompletion, you should be able to easily explore the indices namespace by typing:

$client->indices()->

And perusing the list of available methods. Alternatively, browsing the \Elasticsearch\Namespaces\Indices.php file shows you the full list of available method calls (as well as parameter lists in the comments for each method).