Updated on 2023-06-20 GMT+08:00

Accessing a Cluster Through the Rest High Level Client

Elasticsearch provides SDK (Rest High Level Client) for connecting to a cluster. This client encapsulates Elasticsearch APIs. You only need to construct required structures to access the Elasticsearch cluster. For details about how to use the Rest Client, see the official document at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api-client/master/index.html.

This section describes how to use the Rest High Level Client to access the CSS cluster. The Rest High Level Client can be connected to the cluster in any of the following ways:

Precautions

You are advised to use the Rest High Level Client version that matches the Elasticsearch version. For example, use Rest High Level Client 7.6.2 to access the Elasticsearch cluster 7.6.2. If your Java Rest High Level Client version is later than the Elasticsearch cluster and incompatible with a few requests, you can use RestHighLevelClient.getLowLevelClient() to obtain Low Level Client and customize the Elasticsearch request content.

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.

    • Maven mode:
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
          <artifactId>elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client</artifactId>
          <version>7.6.2</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
          <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
          <version>7.6.2</version>
      </dependency>
    • Gradle mode:
      compile group: 'org.elasticsearch.client', name: 'elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client', version: '7.6.2'

Connecting to a Non-Security Cluster Through the Rest High Level Client

You can use the Rest High Level Client to connect to a non-security cluster and check whether the test index exists. The sample code is as follows:

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RequestOptions;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClientBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient;
import org.elasticsearch.client.indices.GetIndexRequest;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

/**
* Use Rest Hive Level to connect to a non-security cluster.
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        List<String> host = Arrays.asList("x.x.x.x", "x.x.x.x");
        RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder(constructHttpHosts(host, 9200, "http"));
        final RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient(builder);
        GetIndexRequest indexRequest = new GetIndexRequest("test");
        boolean exists = client.indices().exists(indexRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
        System.out.println(exists);
        client.close();
    }

    /**
     * Use the constructHttpHosts function to convert the node IP address list of the host cluster.
     */
    public static HttpHost[] constructHttpHosts(List<String> host, int port, String protocol) {
        return host.stream().map(p -> new HttpHost(p, port, protocol)).toArray(HttpHost[]::new);
    }
}

host indicates the IP address list of each node in the cluster. If there are multiple IP addresses, separate them with commas (,). test indicates the index name to be queried.

Connecting to a Security Cluster Through Rest High Level Client (Without Security Certificates)

You can connect to a cluster in security mode+HTTP or a cluster in security mode + HTTPS (without using certificates).

The sample code is as follows:

  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8
  9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31
 32
 33
 34
 35
 36
 37
 38
 39
 40
 41
 42
 43
 44
 45
 46
 47
 48
 49
 50
 51
 52
 53
 54
 55
 56
 57
 58
 59
 60
 61
 62
 63
 64
 65
 66
 67
 68
 69
 70
 71
 72
 73
 74
 75
 76
 77
 78
 79
 80
 81
 82
 83
 84
 85
 86
 87
 88
 89
 90
 91
 92
 93
 94
 95
 96
 97
 98
 99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.HttpAsyncClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.nio.conn.ssl.SSLIOSessionStrategy;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.health.ClusterHealthRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.health.ClusterHealthResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RequestOptions;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClientBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient;
import org.elasticsearch.client.indices.GetIndexRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

/**
* Connect to a security cluster through Rest High Level (without using certificates).
 */
public class Main {
    /**
* Create a class for the client. Define the create function.
     */
    public static RestHighLevelClient create(List<String> host, int port, String protocol, int connectTimeout, int connectionRequestTimeout, int socketTimeout, String username, String password) throws IOException{
        final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentialsProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password));
        SSLContext sc = null;
        try {
            sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
            sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
        } catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        SSLIOSessionStrategy sessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sc, new NullHostNameVerifier());
        SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback httpClientConfigCallback = new SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback(sessionStrategy,
            credentialsProvider);


        RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder(constructHttpHosts(host, port, protocol))
            .setRequestConfigCallback(requestConfig -> requestConfig.setConnectTimeout(connectTimeout)
                .setConnectionRequestTimeout(connectionRequestTimeout)
                .setSocketTimeout(socketTimeout))
            .setHttpClientConfigCallback(httpClientConfigCallback);
        final RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient(builder);
        logger.info("es rest client build success {} ", client);

        ClusterHealthRequest request = new ClusterHealthRequest();
        ClusterHealthResponse response = client.cluster().health(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
        logger.info("es rest client health response {} ", response);
        return client;
    }

    /**
     * Use the constructHttpHosts function to convert the node IP address list of the host cluster.
     */
    public static HttpHost[] constructHttpHosts(List<String> host, int port, String protocol) {
        return host.stream().map(p -> new HttpHost(p, port, protocol)).toArray(HttpHost[]::new);
    }

    /**
     * Configure trustAllCerts to ignore the certificate configuration.
     */
    public static TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] {
        new X509TrustManager() {
            @Override
            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            }

            @Override
            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            }

            @Override
            public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                return null;
            }
        }
    };

    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(Main.class);

    static class SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback implements RestClientBuilder.HttpClientConfigCallback {
        @Nullable
        private final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider;
        /**
         * The {@link SSLIOSessionStrategy} for all requests to enable SSL / TLS encryption.
         */
        private final SSLIOSessionStrategy sslStrategy;
        /**
         * Create a new {@link SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback}.
         *
         * @param credentialsProvider The credential provider, if a username/password have been supplied
         * @param sslStrategy         The SSL strategy, if SSL / TLS have been supplied
         * @throws NullPointerException if {@code sslStrategy} is {@code null}
         */
        SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback(final SSLIOSessionStrategy sslStrategy,
            @Nullable final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider) {
            this.sslStrategy = Objects.requireNonNull(sslStrategy);
            this.credentialsProvider = credentialsProvider;
        }
        /**
         * Get the {@link CredentialsProvider} that will be added to the HTTP client.
         *
         * @return Can be {@code null}.
         */
        @Nullable
        CredentialsProvider getCredentialsProvider() {
            return credentialsProvider;
        }
        /**
         * Get the {@link SSLIOSessionStrategy} that will be added to the HTTP client.
         *
         * @return Never {@code null}.
         */
        SSLIOSessionStrategy getSSLStrategy() {
            return sslStrategy;
        }
        /**
         * Sets the {@linkplain HttpAsyncClientBuilder#setDefaultCredentialsProvider(CredentialsProvider) credential provider},
         *
         * @param httpClientBuilder The client to configure.
         * @return Always {@code httpClientBuilder}.
         */
        @Override
        public HttpAsyncClientBuilder customizeHttpClient(final HttpAsyncClientBuilder httpClientBuilder) {
            // enable SSL / TLS
            httpClientBuilder.setSSLStrategy(sslStrategy);
            // enable user authentication
            if (credentialsProvider != null) {
                httpClientBuilder.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider);
            }
            return httpClientBuilder;
        }
    }

    public static class NullHostNameVerifier implements HostnameVerifier {
        @Override
        public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    /**
* The following is an example of the main function. Call the create function to create a client and check whether the test index exists.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        RestHighLevelClient client = create(Arrays.asList("x.x.x.x", "x.x.x.x"), 9200, "https", 1000, 1000, 1000,  "username", "password");
        GetIndexRequest indexRequest = new GetIndexRequest("test");
        boolean exists = client.indices().exists(indexRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
        System.out.println(exists);
        client.close();
    }
}
Table 1 Variables

Parameter

Description

host

List of the IP addresses of Elasticsearch nodes (or independent Client node). Multiple IP addresses are separated using commas (,).

port

Access port of the Elasticsearch cluster. The default value is 9200.

protocol

Connection protocol, which can be http or https.

connectTimeout

Socket connection timeout period.

connectionRequestTimeout

Timeout period of a socket connection request.

socketTimeout

Timeout period of a socket request.

username

Username for accessing the cluster.

password

Password of the user.

Connecting to a Security Cluster Through Rest High Level Client (With Security Certificates)

You can use a security certificate to connect to a cluster in security mode + HTTPS.

  1. Obtain the security certificate CloudSearchService.cer.
    1. Log in to the CSS management console.
    2. In the navigation pane, choose Clusters. The cluster list is displayed.
    3. Click the name of a cluster to go to the cluster details page.
    4. On the Configuration page, click Download Certificate next to HTTPS Access.
  2. Convert the security certificate CloudSearchService.cer. Upload the downloaded security certificate to the client and use keytool to convert the .cer certificate into a .jks certificate that can be read by Java.
    • In Linux, run the following command to convert the certificate:
      keytool -import -alias newname -keystore ./truststore.jks -file ./CloudSearchService.cer 
    • In Windows, run the following command to convert the certificate:
      keytool -import -alias newname -keystore .\truststore.jks -file .\CloudSearchService.cer

    In the preceding command, newname indicates the user-defined certificate name.

    After this command is executed, you will be prompted to set the certificate password and confirm the password. Securely store the password. It will be used for accessing the cluster.

  3. Access the cluster. The sample code is as follows:
      1
      2
      3
      4
      5
      6
      7
      8
      9
     10
     11
     12
     13
     14
     15
     16
     17
     18
     19
     20
     21
     22
     23
     24
     25
     26
     27
     28
     29
     30
     31
     32
     33
     34
     35
     36
     37
     38
     39
     40
     41
     42
     43
     44
     45
     46
     47
     48
     49
     50
     51
     52
     53
     54
     55
     56
     57
     58
     59
     60
     61
     62
     63
     64
     65
     66
     67
     68
     69
     70
     71
     72
     73
     74
     75
     76
     77
     78
     79
     80
     81
     82
     83
     84
     85
     86
     87
     88
     89
     90
     91
     92
     93
     94
     95
     96
     97
     98
     99
    100
    101
    102
    103
    104
    105
    106
    107
    108
    109
    110
    111
    112
    113
    114
    115
    116
    117
    118
    119
    120
    121
    122
    123
    124
    125
    126
    127
    128
    129
    130
    131
    132
    133
    134
    135
    136
    137
    138
    139
    140
    141
    142
    143
    144
    145
    146
    147
    148
    149
    150
    151
    152
    153
    154
    155
    156
    157
    158
    159
    160
    161
    162
    163
    164
    165
    166
    167
    import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
    import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
    import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
    import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
    import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
    import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
    import org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.HttpAsyncClientBuilder;
    import org.apache.http.nio.conn.ssl.SSLIOSessionStrategy;
    import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
    import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
    import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.health.ClusterHealthRequest;
    import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.health.ClusterHealthResponse;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.RequestOptions;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClientBuilder;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.indices.GetIndexRequest;
    import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
    
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.security.KeyStore;
    import java.security.SecureRandom;
    import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
    import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
    import java.util.Arrays;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Objects;
    
    import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
    import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
    import javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory;
    import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
    
    /**
    * Use Rest Hive Level to connect to a security cluster (using an HTTPS certificate).
     */
    public class Main {
        public static RestHighLevelClient create(List<String> host, int port, String protocol, int connectTimeout, int connectionRequestTimeout, int socketTimeout, String username, String password, String cerFilePath,
            String cerPassword) throws IOException {
    
            final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
            credentialsProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password));
            SSLContext sc = null;
            try {
                TrustManager[] tm = {new MyX509TrustManager(cerFilePath, cerPassword)};
                sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL", "SunJSSE");
                //You can also use SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");
                sc.init(null, tm, new SecureRandom());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    
            SSLIOSessionStrategy sessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sc, new NoopHostnameVerifier());
            SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback httpClientConfigCallback = new SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback(sessionStrategy,
                credentialsProvider);
    
            RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder(constructHttpHosts(host, port, protocol))
                .setRequestConfigCallback(requestConfig -> requestConfig.setConnectTimeout(connectTimeout)
                    .setConnectionRequestTimeout(connectionRequestTimeout)
                    .setSocketTimeout(socketTimeout))
                .setHttpClientConfigCallback(httpClientConfigCallback);
            final RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient(builder);
            logger.info("es rest client build success {} ", client);
    
            ClusterHealthRequest request = new ClusterHealthRequest();
            ClusterHealthResponse response = client.cluster().health(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
            logger.info("es rest client health response {} ", response);
            return client;
        }
    
        /**
         * Use the constructHttpHosts function to convert the node IP address list of the host cluster.
         */
        public static HttpHost[] constructHttpHosts(List<String> host, int port, String protocol) {
            return host.stream().map(p -> new HttpHost(p, port, protocol)).toArray(HttpHost[]::new);
        }
    
        /**
         * SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback class definition
         */
        static class SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback implements RestClientBuilder.HttpClientConfigCallback {
            @Nullable
            private final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider;
    
            private final SSLIOSessionStrategy sslStrategy;
    
            SecuredHttpClientConfigCallback(final SSLIOSessionStrategy sslStrategy,
                @Nullable final CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider) {
                this.sslStrategy = Objects.requireNonNull(sslStrategy);
                this.credentialsProvider = credentialsProvider;
            }
    
            @Nullable
            CredentialsProvider getCredentialsProvider() {
                return credentialsProvider;
            }
    
            SSLIOSessionStrategy getSSLStrategy() {
                return sslStrategy;
            }
    
            @Override
            public HttpAsyncClientBuilder customizeHttpClient(final HttpAsyncClientBuilder httpClientBuilder) {
                httpClientBuilder.setSSLStrategy(sslStrategy);
                if (credentialsProvider != null) {
                    httpClientBuilder.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider);
                }
                return httpClientBuilder;
            }
        }
    
        private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(Main.class);
    
        public static class MyX509TrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
            X509TrustManager sunJSSEX509TrustManager;
    
            MyX509TrustManager(String cerFilePath, String cerPassword) throws Exception {
                File file = new File(cerFilePath);
                if (!file.isFile()) {
                    throw new Exception("Wrong Certification Path");
                }
                System.out.println("Loading KeyStore " + file + "...");
                InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
                KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
                ks.load(in, cerPassword.toCharArray());
                TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509", "SunJSSE");
                tmf.init(ks);
                TrustManager[] tms = tmf.getTrustManagers();
                for (TrustManager tm : tms) {
                    if (tm instanceof X509TrustManager) {
                        sunJSSEX509TrustManager = (X509TrustManager) tm;
                        return;
                    }
                }
                throw new Exception("Couldn't initialize");
            }
    
            @Override
            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
    
            }
    
            @Override
            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
    
            }
    
            @Override
            public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                return new X509Certificate[0];
            }
        }
    
        /**
    * The following is an example of the main function. Call the create function to create a client and check whether the test index exists.
         */
        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
            RestHighLevelClient client = create(Arrays.asList("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"), 9200, "https", 1000, 1000, 1000, "username", "password", "cerFilePath", "cerPassword");
            GetIndexRequest indexRequest = new GetIndexRequest("test");
            boolean exists = client.indices().exists(indexRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
            System.out.println(exists);
            client.close();
        }
    }
    
    Table 2 Function parameters

    Name

    Description

    host

    List of the IP addresses of Elasticsearch nodes (or independent Client node). Multiple IP addresses are separated using commas (,).

    port

    Access port of the Elasticsearch cluster. The default value is 9200.

    protocol

    Connection protocol. Set this parameter to https.

    connectTimeout

    Socket connection timeout period.

    connectionRequestTimeout

    Timeout period of a socket connection request.

    socketTimeout

    Timeout period of a socket request.

    username

    Username for accessing the cluster.

    password

    Password of the user.

    cerFilePath

    Certificate path.

    cerPassword

    Certificate password.