Initialization

A RestHighLevelClient instance needs a REST low-level client builder to be built as follows:

RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient(
        RestClient.builder(
                new HttpHost("localhost", 9200, "http"),
                new HttpHost("localhost", 9201, "http")));

The high-level client will internally create the low-level client used to perform requests based on the provided builder, and manage its lifecycle.

The high-level client instance needs to be closed when no longer needed so that all the resources used by it get properly released, as well as the underlying http client instance and its threads. This can be done through the close method, which will close the internal RestClient instance.

client.close();

In the rest of this documentation about the Java High Level Client, the RestHighLevelClient instance will be referenced as client.