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Elastisch, a minimalistic Clojure client for ElasticSearch: Percolation
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About this guide

This guide covers ElasticSearch search capabilities in depth, explains how Elastisch presents them in the API and how some of the key features are commonly used. This guide covers:

  • An overview of the ElasticSearch percolation feature
  • What is percolation
  • How to register a query for percolation with Elastisch
  • How to perform a query percolation
  • How to unregister a query from percolation

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (including images & stylesheets). The source is available on Github.

What version of Elastisch does this guide cover?

This guide covers Elastisch 2.2.x releases, including preview releases.

Overview

ElasticSearch Percolator is a feature that lets you register a number of queries and determine which of them match a particular document. Percolation can be thought of as "inverse search". It is most commonly used for features such as alerts: notifying the user that a new document that matches particular (stored) queries is now available.

For example, combined with ElasticSearch's support for geo queries, this can include alerts about new properties in a particular area in a real estate application.

Documents submitted for percolation are not indexed, only matched against a list of pre-registered queries.

Registering a Query with Percolator

Before using the percolation API, one or more queries needs to be registered against the percolator. Queries are grouped by index (or, to put it differently, each index has a percolator associated with it). With Elastisch, clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.percolation/register-query is the function that does that:

(require '[clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.percolation :as pcl])

;; register a percolator query for the given index
(pcl/register-query conn "myapp" "sample_percolator" :query {:term {:title "search"}})

Submitting Documents for Percolation

After one or more queries are registered, you can submit documents for percolation with the clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.percolation/percolate function:

(require '[clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.percolation :as pcl])
(require '[clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.response :as r])

;; register a percolator query for the given index
(pcl/register-query conn "myapp" "sample_percolator" :query {:term {:title "search"}})

;; match a document against the percolator
(let [response (pcl/percolate conn "myapp" "sample_percolator" :doc {:title "You know, for search"})]
  (println (r/ok? response))
  ;; print matches
  (println (r/matches-from response)))

which returns the response as an immutable Clojure map.

The clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.response/matches-from function returns names of matched queries as a collection.

clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.response/ok? can be used to check if response is successful.

Unregistering a Query with Percolator

Queries can be unregistered with the clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.percolation/unregister-query function:

(require '[clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.response :as r])

;; register a percolator query for the given index
(pcl/register-query conn "myapp" "sample_percolator" :query {:term {:title "search"}})

;; unregister the percolator
(pcl/unregister-query conn "myapp" "sample_percolator")

Wrapping Up

ElasticSearch Percolator is a specialized feature that is most useful for event notifications about index changes. It uses Lucene's powerful querying capabilities to match documents against queries.

Elastisch follows ElasticSearch Percolation API structure closely.

What to Read Next

The documentation is organized as a number of guides, covering different topics in depth.