Accessing the Cluster Through the Transport Client

You can use Transport Client to access a CSS cluster in non-security mode. If the cluster is in security mode, you are advised to use Rest High Level Client to access the Elasticsearch cluster.

Precautions

You are advised to use the Transport Client version that matches the Elasticsearch version. For example, use Transport Client 7.6.2 to access the Elasticsearch cluster 7.6.2.

Prerequisites

The CSS cluster is available.
Ensure that the server running Java can communicate with the CSS cluster.
Install JDK 1.8 on the server. You can download JDK 1.8 from: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Declare Java dependencies.

7.6.2 indicates the version of the Elasticsearch Java client.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
    <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
    <version>7.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
    <version>7.6.2</version>
</dependency>

Procedure

The following code is an example of using Transport Client to connect to the Elasticsearch cluster and check whether the test index exists.

    
     
       
       
         import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionFuture;
import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.IndicesExistsRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.IndicesExistsResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient;
import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.transport.TransportAddress;
import org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException, UnknownHostException {
        String cluster_name = "xxx";
        String host1 = "x.x.x.x";
        String host2 = "y.y.y.y";
        Settings settings = Settings.builder()
            .put("client.transport.sniff",false)
            .put("cluster.name", cluster_name)
            .build();
        TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings)
            .addTransportAddress(new TransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName(host1), 9300))
            .addTransportAddress(new TransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName(host2), 9300));
        IndicesExistsRequest indicesExistsRequest = new IndicesExistsRequest("test");
        ActionFuture<IndicesExistsResponse> exists = client.admin().indices().exists(indicesExistsRequest);
        System.out.println(exists.get().isExists());
    }
}

        

      

    
   

In the preceding information, cluster_name indicates the cluster name, and host1 and host2 indicate the IP addresses of the cluster nodes. You can run the GET _cat/nodes command to view the IP addresses of the nodes.

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